Resultados para "Outline" en Psicológica

In un'estate greca calda e bruciante, una scrittrice inglese arriva ad Atene per tenere un seminario. Il suo sarà un soggiorno denso di incontri e lunghe conversazioni: con il ricco imprenditore conosciuto sull'aereo che la invita in barca; con l'amico che ha scoperto a proprie spese come realizzare i sogni possa trasformarsi in una condanna; con una donna per la quale la bellezza ha finito col diventare un ostacolo in amore.

A woman on a plane listens to the stranger in the seat next to hers telling her the story of his life: his work, his marriage, and the harrowing night he has just spent burying the family dog. That woman is Faye, who is on her way to Europe to promote the book she has just published. Once she reaches her destination, the conversations she has with the people she meets - about art, about family, about politics, about love, about sorrow and joy, about justice and injustice - include the most far-reaching questions human beings ask.

In the wake of her family's collapse, a writer and her two young sons move to London. The upheaval is the catalyst for a number of transitions - personal, moral, artistic and practical - as she endeavours to construct a new reality for herself and her children. In the city, she is made to confront aspects of living that she has, until now, avoided and to consider questions of vulnerability and power, death and renewal, in what becomes her struggle to reattach herself to and believe in life.

This program is read by actor Genevieve Gaunt, who has appeared in Doctor Who, The Royals, and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. From Rachel Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy, comes this startling, exhilarating novel that once again expands the notion of what fiction can be and do...