OUTLINE

Outline is a novel in ten conversations. Spare and lucid, it follows a novelist teaching a course in creative writing over an oppres sively hot summer in Athens. She leads her students in storytelling exercises. She meets other visiting writers for dinner. She goes swimming in the Ionian Sea with her neighbor from the plane. The people she encounters speak volubly about themselves: their fantas ies, anxieties, pet theories, regrets, and longings. And through these disclosures, a portrait of the narrator is drawn by contrast, a portr...[Read more]