“My version,” Cusk writes in a brief author’s note, “is intended as a tribute to her spirit.” Like Lorenzo in Taos, Second Place is addressed to a figure called Jeffers Luhan’s Jeffers was the poet Robinson Jeffers, while Cusk’s remains a mystery. Lawrence came to stay in her artists’ colony in Taos, New Mexico. It is vexed and questing, in search of some missing piece, some object that will bring meaning to the world but is utterly inaccessible it fairly seethes with discontent.Ĭusk has patterned Second Place loosely after Lorenzo in Taos, a memoir by the artist’s patron Mabel Dodge Luhan about the time D.H. Rachel Cusk’s new novel Second Place - her first since the breakaway success of her Outline trilogy - is a lovely and vicious piece of work.
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