What's the difference between brosmius and cusk?

Brosmius


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Cusk


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  • (n.) A large, edible, marine fish (Brosmius brosme), allied to the cod, common on the northern coasts of Europe and America; -- called also tusk and torsk.

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  • (1) Between these worlds, Cusk has crafted a work of beauty and wisdom.
  • (2) This is my story, Cusk says, allowing no other voices that might further illuminate.
  • (3) CD: I don't think Rachel Cusk's book is particularly confessional.
  • (4) It is difficult to see where Cusk's discontent comes from when, on the face of it, she has had the cushiest of lives.
  • (5) Cusk writes: "My husband believed that I had treated him monstrously.
  • (6) Ihave never actually handled a highly strung racehorse, but that is what interviewing Rachel Cusk brings to mind.
  • (7) Cusk makes you think differently and look differently, even if you don't agree with what she's saying.
  • (8) It's only slowly, and in recent years, that the voice of the mother has come out – the odd middlebrow novel of the kind Virago and Persephone rescue ( EM Delafield or Dorothy Whipple ) and more recently Margaret Drabble , Julie Myerson , Rachel Cusk .
  • (9) Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation, by Rachel Cusk , is published on 1 March by Faber and Faber.
  • (10) "Cusk anatomises motherhood as Montaigne anatomised friendship or Robert Burton anatomised melancholy ...
  • (11) And Rachel Cusk's "Aftermath", a tantalising excerpt from her divorce memoir, which comes out next year.
  • (12) Rachel Cusk may have written "childbirth and motherhood are the anvil upon which sexual inequality was forged" but using personal experience is still controversial.
  • (13) They say "What shines in Rachel Cusk's writing is the precision of her observation... she can pinpoint something profound with the merest detail."
  • (14) He still had literary supporters, with DJ Taylor, Rachel Cusk and Anne Tyler all writing admiringly of his novels, but Read had become a more marginal artistic figure, and two years ago, after completing a new novel, the thrillerish The Death of a Pope , both his publisher and agent were concerned it was too Catholic and would not appeal to a wider readership.
  • (15) Few figures in contemporary British literature divide people like Rachel Cusk.
  • (16) • The Bradhsaw Variations by Rachel Cusk is published by Faber on 3 September at £15.99 and is available from the Observer bookshop .
  • (17) Rachel Cusk's Aftermath might help me, guide me, support me during times of marriage breakdown.
  • (18) However, Rachel Cusk is not one for counting her blessings.
  • (19) Whether she imputes that view to the solicitor or not, Cusk still wants it both ways: we're asked to imagine her ex as such a magnificent lawyer that he managed to make her feel as though she were conscripting him, when all along, they were working to his long-game.
  • (20) Cusk gazes at herself unblinkingly, and judges harshly what she sees.

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