--- product_id: 119367663 title: "Kudos: A Novel (Outline Trilogy, 3)" price: "283 kr" currency: NOK in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.no/products/119367663-kudos-a-novel-outline-trilogy-3 store_origin: NO region: Norway --- # Kudos: A Novel (Outline Trilogy, 3) **Price:** 283 kr **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Kudos: A Novel (Outline Trilogy, 3) - **How much does it cost?** 283 kr with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.no](https://www.desertcart.no/products/119367663-kudos-a-novel-outline-trilogy-3) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description New York Times Book Review 100 Notable Books of 2018 • desertcart Editors' Top 100 of 2018 Rachel Cusk, the award-winning and critically acclaimed author of Outline and Transit , completes the transcendent literary trilogy with Kudos , a novel of unsettling power. A woman writer visits a Europe in flux, where questions of personal and political identity are rising to the surface and the trauma of change is opening up new possibilities of loss and renewal. Within the rituals of literary culture, Faye finds the human story in disarray amid differing attitudes toward the public performance of the creative persona. She begins to identify among the people she meets a tension between truth and representation, a fissure that accrues great dramatic force as Kudos reaches a profound and beautiful climax. In this conclusion to her groundbreaking trilogy, Cusk unflinchingly explores the nature of family and art, justice and love, and the ultimate value of suffering. She is without question one of our most important living writers. Review: Voice Through Listening. In Autofiction's Fast-track, Ms. Cusk Surpasses Limelights, Such as Beloved Karl Ove Knausgaard - Rachel Cusk’s “Kudos” is fine work—the best of the breed some have dubbed auto-fiction, or autobiographical fiction. My awe for her style stems from how deftly she renders reality’s approximation on the page—a creative problem rooted deeply in psychology and identity creation that she seems to effortlessly overcome through that which we hear, which baffles me more. Admittedly, (sadly), I came to Cusk late. Lost in the Karl Ove Knausgaard’s own quite sublime autofiction, the pace of which lags for me at points, when I at last discovered Miss Cusk I had the thrill of an undergrad seeing something new that impressed me to no end. I concede I find Cusk superior in the way she represents reality on the printed page to so many of today’s master-set. A bit about me: a first-generation college student from a working class milieu, I cut my teeth in literature late—on Faulkner, Bellow, Nabokov, and Roth (Philip) in my twenties, before descending down a first William Gaddis, then Thomas Bernhard, rabbit hole. In those heady days, my absorbing phase, I believe, like a new wine drinker, I would have lacked the maturity in palate to appreciate Cusk’s project, although her specific, clear prose would not have been lost on me. In this book—I know so little of how she works—I’d imagine Cusk employs a Cusk stand-in, in author Faye. The novel opens with her listening to the woes of a very tall man mistreated in a plane; he is tired; he needs to stretch his legs; in order to avoid sleep, he talks, and Faye listens. Often his dialogue is filtered through her. A device I too often neglect due to bad writing program advice that so often constrains our creative arsenal, not unlike the frowning so many MFA program’s have for leaping in P.O.V. I had to backtrack to the other elegant books in her “Outline” trilogy; in one—was it “Transit”?—she relays an early relationship—with oh so simple moment when we run into someone on the street with whom we were once deeply involved—a man who has (seemingly) barely changed. This, too, shows her high craft and art. In this volume, the third in a brief, elegant trilogy, she would like to see her life flower…to explode wide after her remarriage, as she suffers the indignities of Britain’s political climate. The big difference here, for me, is that Faye seems to say so little; her encounters—like that of the Taxi Driver in the Iranian classic “A Taste of Cherry”—I hope I have the title right; it has been a while—drive what narrative is; she is defined, in essence, by what is said to her, and this makes her live and breathe. LOVE. Review: Well designed conclusion to the series. - The third installment in a well crafted, well written trilogy. Cusk’s writing is spare yet full, a trait I admire. Her ability to observe is telling. The main character, an author on a literary tour of sorts, was interviewed about her work or asked to discuss it, but listened far more than she spoke. Perhaps that is why she was receiving such Kudos. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #42,237 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #175 in Financial Thrillers (Books) #1,100 in Friendship Fiction (Books) #1,647 in Psychological Fiction (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.2 out of 5 stars 1,100 Reviews | ## Images ![Kudos: A Novel (Outline Trilogy, 3) - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71peXIkq6mL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Voice Through Listening. In Autofiction's Fast-track, Ms. Cusk Surpasses Limelights, Such as Beloved Karl Ove Knausgaard *by C***G on June 10, 2018* Rachel Cusk’s “Kudos” is fine work—the best of the breed some have dubbed auto-fiction, or autobiographical fiction. My awe for her style stems from how deftly she renders reality’s approximation on the page—a creative problem rooted deeply in psychology and identity creation that she seems to effortlessly overcome through that which we hear, which baffles me more. Admittedly, (sadly), I came to Cusk late. Lost in the Karl Ove Knausgaard’s own quite sublime autofiction, the pace of which lags for me at points, when I at last discovered Miss Cusk I had the thrill of an undergrad seeing something new that impressed me to no end. I concede I find Cusk superior in the way she represents reality on the printed page to so many of today’s master-set. A bit about me: a first-generation college student from a working class milieu, I cut my teeth in literature late—on Faulkner, Bellow, Nabokov, and Roth (Philip) in my twenties, before descending down a first William Gaddis, then Thomas Bernhard, rabbit hole. In those heady days, my absorbing phase, I believe, like a new wine drinker, I would have lacked the maturity in palate to appreciate Cusk’s project, although her specific, clear prose would not have been lost on me. In this book—I know so little of how she works—I’d imagine Cusk employs a Cusk stand-in, in author Faye. The novel opens with her listening to the woes of a very tall man mistreated in a plane; he is tired; he needs to stretch his legs; in order to avoid sleep, he talks, and Faye listens. Often his dialogue is filtered through her. A device I too often neglect due to bad writing program advice that so often constrains our creative arsenal, not unlike the frowning so many MFA program’s have for leaping in P.O.V. I had to backtrack to the other elegant books in her “Outline” trilogy; in one—was it “Transit”?—she relays an early relationship—with oh so simple moment when we run into someone on the street with whom we were once deeply involved—a man who has (seemingly) barely changed. This, too, shows her high craft and art. In this volume, the third in a brief, elegant trilogy, she would like to see her life flower…to explode wide after her remarriage, as she suffers the indignities of Britain’s political climate. The big difference here, for me, is that Faye seems to say so little; her encounters—like that of the Taxi Driver in the Iranian classic “A Taste of Cherry”—I hope I have the title right; it has been a while—drive what narrative is; she is defined, in essence, by what is said to her, and this makes her live and breathe. LOVE. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Well designed conclusion to the series. *by L***N on December 9, 2019* The third installment in a well crafted, well written trilogy. Cusk’s writing is spare yet full, a trait I admire. Her ability to observe is telling. The main character, an author on a literary tour of sorts, was interviewed about her work or asked to discuss it, but listened far more than she spoke. Perhaps that is why she was receiving such Kudos. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The words lift themselves off the page. *by C***P on June 27, 2018* Rachel Cusk’s latest novel in her Outline trilogy is KUDOS. The writing is animated. She captures the simplest of thoughts, movements, the everyday, and turns them into vignettes that seem to lift themselves off the page. Whether our protagonist, an author herself, is sitting next to a man on a plane, who can’t get comfortable in his own seat, is being interviewed about her new book by a journalist who takes neurotic to a whole new level or is listening to the bitterness of a woman who confides her jealousy of her sister to such an unhealthy, all-consuming degree, by the time you reach the end of this compact story, satisfaction is guaranteed. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.no/products/119367663-kudos-a-novel-outline-trilogy-3](https://www.desertcart.no/products/119367663-kudos-a-novel-outline-trilogy-3) --- *Product available on Desertcart Norway* *Store origin: NO* *Last updated: 2026-09-16*