A Life's Work

基本信息

Format:Paperback / softback 240 pages

Publisher:Faber & Faber

Imprint:Faber & Faber

Edition:Main

ISBN:9780571350933

Published:16 May 2019

Weight:196g

Dimensions:194 x 128 x 16 (mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

没有女人天生是母亲

洞幽察微的生育记录，道出女人的焦虑与煎熬

感谢时代，生育终于也和婚姻一样成为了可讨论的问题

怀孕生子不仅区分了男人和女人，也区分了女人和女人。怀孕生产后，女人对于存在的意义的理解发生了巨变。她体内存在另一个人，孩子出生后便受她的意识所管辖。孩子在身边时，她做不了自己；孩子不在时她也做不了自己。人类的每一位成员都会经历从出生到独立这一异常艰辛的过程，而这一过程必须征用某个女人的一段生命。

《成为母亲》忠实地呈现了这段生命。它是一种寻常生活从不可见、不可感，向激烈的热情、爱与奴役转变的过程，它还是一种束缚，一种妥协。

身为女人，成为母亲是什么感受？照顾一个幼小的婴儿又是什么感觉？而当孩子长大，有了自己的意识，母亲又作何感想？英国作家蕾切尔·卡斯克记下了自己那一年包含多重面向的的经历：个人自由、睡眠和时间的终结，对人性和艰苦工作的重新认识，追寻爱的真谛，游走在疯狂和死亡之间，对婴幼儿的情感体验，对母乳喂养的思考……

Rachel Cusk's controversial, funny and moving account of her first few years of motherhood.

When first published in 2001, it divided female critics and readers. One famous columnist wrote a piece demanding that Cusk's children were taken into care, that was she was unfit to look after them. Oprah Winfrey invited her on the show to defend herself and the book as protests grew about the its honest, gritty account of the misery of those early months. It is a seminal, stand-out book on the complications of being an ambivalent mum in an age of white-washed, Annabel Karmel'd new families.

A Cordelia Gray Mystery

Hired to protect a beautiful but neurotic actress, Cordelia Gray soon becomes embroiled in a case as dangerous to her own life as it is mysterious.

Clarissa Lisle hopes to make a spectacular comeback in a production of The Duchess of Malfi, to be played in Ambrose Gorringe's sinister castle at Courcy Island. Cordelia is there to ensure her safety following the appearance of a number of poison-pen letters. But it soon becomes clear that all are in danger. Trapped within the walls of the Gothic castle, the treacherous past of the island re-emerges, and everyone seems to have a motive for sending Clarissa 'down, down to hell'.

Marking the return of Cordelia Gray, The Skull Beneath the Skin is a complex mystery which more than lives up to its predecessor, An Unsuitable Job for a Woman.

作者简介

蕾切尔·卡斯克（Rachel Cusk, 1967.2.8— ），英国作家，毕业于牛津大学新学院。1993年，她凭《拯救阿格尼丝》（Saving Agnes）获得了当年惠特布莱特最佳小说处女作奖。2003年，她被《格兰塔》选为“20名最佳英国小说家”。

她出版过九部小说和三本非虚构作品。本书为她第一部非虚构作品。

Rachel Cusk is the author of nine novels and three works of non-fiction, which have won and been shortlisted for numerous prizes. In 2015, Cusk's version of Medea was staged at the Almeida Theatre.