Book description
When prize-winning author Rachel Cusk decides to travel to Italy
for a summer with her husband and two young children she has no idea
of the trials and wonders that lie in store. Their journey leads them
to both the expected - the Piero della Francesca trail and queues at
the Vatican - and the surprising - an amorous Scottish ex-pat and a
longing for home - all seen through Cusk's sharp and humane
perspective. Exploring the desire to travel and to escape, art and its
inspirations, beauty and ugliness, and the challenge of balancing
domestic life with creativity, The Last Supper is a wonderful travel
book about life on the most famous art trail in the world, from one of
Britain's most pre-eminent writers.
Rachel Cusk was born in 1967 and is the author of six novels:
Saving Agnes, which won the Whitbread First Novel Award, The
Temporary, The Country Life, which won a Somerset Maugham Award, The
Lucky Ones, which was shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel Award, In
the Fold and Arlington Park, which was shortlisted for the 2007 Orange
Broadband Prize for Fiction. Her non-fiction book A Life's Work was
published to huge acclaim in 2001 and her memoir The Last Supper will
be published in February 2009. In 2003 she was chosen as one of
Granta's Best of Young Novelists. She lives in Brighton.
