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2016 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction (longlist)
2015 Giller Prize (shortlist)
2015 The Writers' Prize for Fiction (nominee)
2015 Women's Prize For Fiction (nominee)
2014 Goldsmiths Prize (nominee)
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#14 in the New York Times '100 Best Books of the 21st Century'
ONE OF THE SUNDAY TIMES' '25 BEST NOVELS OF THE 21ST CENTURY'
SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE AND THE FOLIO PRIZE
LONGLISTED FOR THE IMPAC PRIZE
'A work of stunning beauty, deep insight and great originality.'
Monica Ali, New York Times
'One of the most daringly original and entertaining pieces of fiction I've ever read.'
Observer
'A perfect synthesis of form and content.'
Deborah Levy
'Full of baking light and quiet melancholy and bodies brushing past one another in the heat.'
Leslie Jamison
Outline is a novel in ten conversations. Spare and lucid, it follows a novelist teaching a course in creative writing over an oppressively hot summer in Athens. She leads her student in storytelling exercises. She meets other writers for dinner. She goes swimming in the Ionian Sea with her seatmate from the place. The people she encounters speak volubly about themselves, their fantasies, anxieties, pet theories, regrets, and longings. And through these disclosures, a portrait of the narrator is drawn by contrast, a portrait of a woman learning to face great a great loss.
Genre: Literary Fiction
#14 in the New York Times '100 Best Books of the 21st Century'
ONE OF THE SUNDAY TIMES' '25 BEST NOVELS OF THE 21ST CENTURY'
SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE AND THE FOLIO PRIZE
LONGLISTED FOR THE IMPAC PRIZE
'A work of stunning beauty, deep insight and great originality.'
Monica Ali, New York Times
'One of the most daringly original and entertaining pieces of fiction I've ever read.'
Observer
'A perfect synthesis of form and content.'
Deborah Levy
'Full of baking light and quiet melancholy and bodies brushing past one another in the heat.'
Leslie Jamison
Outline is a novel in ten conversations. Spare and lucid, it follows a novelist teaching a course in creative writing over an oppressively hot summer in Athens. She leads her student in storytelling exercises. She meets other writers for dinner. She goes swimming in the Ionian Sea with her seatmate from the place. The people she encounters speak volubly about themselves, their fantasies, anxieties, pet theories, regrets, and longings. And through these disclosures, a portrait of the narrator is drawn by contrast, a portrait of a woman learning to face great a great loss.
Genre: Literary Fiction
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