The Last Supper

Synopsis of The Last Supper

«The Last Supper: A Summer in Italy» is Rachel Cusk's travel memoir, published by Faber & Faber in hardcover (240 pages, in English).

Rachel Cusk recounts the three-month journey she made with her husband and children through Italy, in search of art and a different life. Her route passes through the Italy of Raphael, the trail of Piero della Francesca and Amalfi; amid meals, soccer and ice cream, she reflects on the foreign language, friendship, the feeling of not belonging and the challenge of reconciling domestic life with creation.

This work by Rachel Cusk was originally published in 2009 and falls within non-fiction, memoir and travel.

For readers of memoirs and travel literature, as well as for those who follow Rachel Cusk's career.