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alihill 's review for:
The Last Supper: A Summer in Italy
by Rachel Cusk
Kind of obsessed with how unlikeable Rachel Cusk is, and yet how those she comes into contact with through her travels hang on her every word and want her attention. Not surprised at all that she divorced her husband, who was never mentioned in this memoir in which she traveled with him for months. Also, this book had to be destroyed and reprinted in the UK because someone recognized themselves in it, and sued for libel--probably all of the people she comes across in her travels would want to sue for libel if they read it. But she’s the master of writing about specific but familiar phenomena or feelings, which is why I’m always drawn to her books. "A foreigner is isolated, observant, displaced. A foreigner lies low, and takes stock. But a tourist feels at home when he is not."