{"product_id":"life-of-m","title":"Life of M","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e** AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW **\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the critically-acclaimed author of the Outline trilogy, an irresistible novel of fame, power, beauty and truth -- and a blazing renovation of the form. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA little while ago, I told the actor M that I was thinking of writing her autobiography. She liked the idea. She's a good sport. Would you just make it up? she said.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eM is a film star, and one of the most recognisable faces of our time. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith such fame, her life has the appearance of freedom: people are instantly obliging, spaces are altered to accommodate her, time can be rearranged. For her, it seems, the rules of reality have melted away. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNow M has agreed to let a stranger write her biography. Their project will sprawl and expand: to the olive groves and holiday beaches where M spends her days; across hotel rooms, bourgeois facades, film sets; through endless modern cities. 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? And what in the end will M make of their work? \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eLife of M\u003c\/i\u003e, Rachel Cusk has again fashioned a new kind of literature. A novel stripped of artifice, it takes our emptiness and fills it with grace.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'[Cusk] is a disciple of the truth, and she helps us to see.' Lucy Jones, \u003ci\u003eIndependent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Roll up, wave a flag and join the crowds to watch Rachel Cusk continue her relentless march through life.' \u003ci\u003eIrish Times \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Faber \u0026 Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57260171526488,"sku":"9780571399802","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780571399802_afbe15e8-3100-4ade-8a18-975181507f11.jpg?v=1779868857","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/life-of-m","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}