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'Cusk is a natural and gifted writer from whom dazzling descriptions, analyses, metaphors and similies gush forth in rich profusion ... delightful and perceptive.' --Daily Telegraph
'Praise be for novelist Rachel Cusk, who brings to her three-month sojourn in Italy a characteristic strangeness and charm.' --Observer
'This memoir, like Cusk's fiction, has real edge and distinction ... an elegant and even beautiful book.' --Evening Standard --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
'Praise be for novelist Rachel Cusk, who brings to her three-month sojourn in Italy a characteristic strangeness and charm.' --Observer
'This memoir, like Cusk's fiction, has real edge and distinction ... an elegant and even beautiful book.' --Evening Standard --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book should have remained as some kind of narcissistic diary entry. I would love for someone to characterise and stereotype Rachel Cusk in the way she does to others. Boring ramblings of someone who thinks a lot of herself.
28 of 32 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I bought this book after hearing it read as Book of the Week on Radio 4. I was very disappointed because what was read had been heavily edited and was a pleasant tour of Italian art. The actual text however was prissy, wordy and self indulgent. I am sorry I bought it
21 of 24 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
No step of the journey is left untouched.An over-egged pudding indeed. Be prepared for the pretentious descriptions to start on the ferry. The author is also relentlessly snobbish, claiming that humble tourists who arrive on coaches can't possibly understand art -of course only a precious few can afford to pull up sticks and children and go and live abroad for several months
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unimpressed
After being to this part of the world I found Rachel Cusks descriptions offensive. This book will waste your time whilst reading, but worse will leave you in a bad mood for a time... Read more
Published 2 months ago by cherrysobo
totally selfish with no self-awareness
what a truly horrible book. totally self-obsessed. rachel cusk comes across as a horrible person. i would not want to spend a second in her company and i will not read another... Read more
Published 2 months ago by soundofsleep
Enchanting yet annoying
I opted for three stars because this book managed to beguile and irritate me in equal measure. The prose can be sublime, but distinctly verbose. Read more
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The joy of good writing
I bought this book on a whim, the subject matter suggested that it might be perfect holiday reading. Too often such books are at once lumbering in style and light in content. Read more
Published 20 months ago by boat rocker
The Last Supper: A Summer in Italy
I really loved this book. Her writing is superb and reading it is like savouring a fine Montepulciano wine - one needs to concentrate, eyes closed and remembering the walks around... Read more
Published 20 months ago by Dvg
Insulting and pretentious
This book is perhaps the most pretentious pile of twaddle I have ever read. Not only did this book make me angry, it made me laugh at the narrow-mindedness of a writer who... Read more
Published 21 months ago by joshua slokum
The Last Supper Rachel Cusk
What a disappointment.I was so looking forward to reading this book,I usually average 52 books a year of all genres and I can honestly say this ranks as one of the most boring... Read more
Published on 20 April 2010 by Artaud
beautiful book
i loved this book, from the opening pages of (it felt) a cold, misty Bristol to the last of this journey. Read more
Published on 31 Aug 2009 by minty
A pure elegance, grace and escapism
Ms. Cusk's The Last Supper is a sheer beauty and a joy to read. Every sentence that she writes is so beautiful and her words are like petals coming down from the tree and land on... Read more
Published on 15 Mar 2009 by Suave
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I heard a reading of part of this book on the radio and was quite entranced with the beautiful English and the subject matter. Read more
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