‘Life of M’ constructs a portrait of how stardom hides a person’s core

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Rachel Cusk, a Canadian-born British writer, has stretched the boundaries of fiction with a series of interrogatory, deliberately plotless short novels, the best known of which is her Outline trilogy. It’s a hard row to keep hoeing. Life of M  ventures in a slightly new, rather tricky direction. The unnamed narrator of this 13th novel — a writer eager to break out of a slump — proposes to a famous actor, dubbed M, to write

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