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Life of M

Life of M

Cusk, Rachel

Hardcover

General FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $27.00

ISBN10: 0374618380
ISBN13: 9780374618384
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: Aug 25 2026
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.65
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.30
Language: English

From the critically acclaimed author of the Outline trilogy, an irresistible novel of fame, power, beauty, and truth--and a blazing renovation of the form.

The movie star M is one of the most recognizable faces of our time. Her image is everywhere. It has been like that since she was a child.

With such fame, her life has the appearance of freedom: people are instantly obliging, spaces are altered to accommodate her, time can be rearranged. M may live in the same places as real people. She may meet her friends or collect her children from school or walk her dogs as they do. But it seems the rules of reality have melted away.

Now, a writer has decided to pay close attention to M's life in the hope of understanding who she really is. It is hard not to feel ugly next to M, hard not to feel insignificant. But what truths--about the very experience of living--might this proximity allow the writer to briefly capture?

In this astonishing novel, Rachel Cusk hunts for these truths without ever swerving away into self-deception. Her pursuit leads us across olive groves and beaches, behind the smoked windows of limousines, and through beautiful cities considered the great masterpieces of civilization. And at every turn, Cusk contemplates the cost of this beauty--and what we might lose when we are hypnotized by it.

Life of M is a thrilling investigation of who we are, and who we pretend to be, at this late stage of modern life when we are mesmerized more than ever by the images we see everywhere. It cuts through a world of noise and spectacle to bring us an eerie music of immense power and beauty.

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