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050 00 $aHQ759$b.C985 2002
082 00 $a306.874/3$221
049 $aIPL1
100 1 $aCusk, Rachel,$d1967-
245 12 $aA life's work :$bon becoming a mother /$cRachel
Cusk.
250 $a1st U.S. ed.
260 $aNew York :$bPicador USA,$c2002.
300 $a213 p. ;$c22 cm.
500 $aOriginally published: London : Fourth Estate,
2001.
505 00 $tForty Weeks -- $tLily Bart's Baby -- $tColic and
Other Stories -- $tLoving, Leaving -- $tMotherbaby --
$tExtra Fox -- $tHell's Kitchen -- $tHelp -- $tDon't Forget
to Scream -- $tA Valediction to Sleep -- $tBreathe --
$tHeartburn.
520 1 $a"The experience of motherhood is an experience in
contradiction. It is commonplace and it is impossible to
imagine. It is prosaic and it is mysterious. It is at once
banal, bizarre, compelling, tedious, comic, and
catastrophic. To become a mother is to become the chief
actor in a drama of human existence to which no one turns
up. It is the process by which an ordinary life is
transformed unseen into a story of strange and powerful
passions, of love and servitude, of confinement. and
compassion." "In a book that is touching, hilarious,
provocative, and profoundly insightful, novelist Rachel Cusk
attempts to tell something of an old story set in a new era
of sexual equality. Cusk's account of a year of modern
motherhood becomes many stories: a farewell to freedom,
sleep, and time; a lesson in humility and hard work; a
journey to the roots of love; a meditation on madness and
mortality; and most of all, a sentimental education in
babies, books, toddler groups, bad advice, crying,
breastfeeding, and never being alone."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aMotherhood.
650 0 $aParenting.
994 $aE0$bIPL
