The Boston Globe, October 23rd, 2005
Within every great comic writer lies the certainty of tragedy else why bother to go after the big guffaws? The British writer Rachel Cusk has this dark knowledge well within her grasp: It's all over "In the Fold," her fourth novel, from the epigraph, which belongs to Liubov's wrenching passage on hope from "The Cherry Orchard." Still, Cusk's voice is so finely calibrated so uproarious and devastatingly precise that you're willing to forget for a while that things are bound to turn out badly. Her grasp of the vast intricacies of human relations has the cool equanimity of George Eliot, but the l...
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