{"product_id":"9780571399819","title":"Life of M","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\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\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eM is a film star, and one of the most recognisable faces of our time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rachel Cusk","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48986856685819,"sku":"9780571399819","price":37.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0806\/8176\/3067\/files\/9780571399819.webp?v=1781650772","url":"https:\/\/aureliabooks.co.nz\/products\/9780571399819","provider":"Aurelia Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}