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Set against city life and shifting seasons, it contrasts public image with private vulnerability, linking media glamour to distance from violence. The text also explores the authority of testimony in literature, examining how victims’ voices can render perpetrators’ narratives fragile and how “end of childhood” reshapes time and selfhood.","LIFE OF M  \nRachel Cusk  \nThis proposal is the property of The Wylie Agency, Inc. and The Wylie Agency (UK), Ltd. It may be legally privileged and/or confidential and is intended only for the use ofthe addressee(s). No addressee should forward, print, copy, or otherwise reproduce this message in any manner that would allow it to be viewed by any individual not originally listed as a recipient. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any unauthorized disclosure, dissemination, distribution, copying or the taking of any action in reliance on the information herein is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please immediately notify the sender and delete this message.  \nThe Wylie Agency (UK) Ltd.  \n17 Bedford Square London WC1B 3JA Tel. 00 44 20 7908 5900  \nThe Wylie Agency, Inc.  \n250 West 57th St., Suite 2114 New York, New York, 10107 Tel. 001 212 246 0069  \nA little while ago, I told the actor M that I was thinking of writing her autobiography. She liked the idea. She’s a good sport. Would you just make it up? she said.  \nWe had met in a bookstore. She was interested in books. In addition to being a film star she was the model for a major brand, and her image looked out everywhere, from shop windows and hoardings and the rain-streaked perspex of bus shelters. In the photograph, she appeared very young and happy. Her smile had a sweetness that almost seemed to reproach those who looked at it for their dim and suspicious view of life.  \nShe lived in a large house on the other side of the river. In person, she was very small, and the house was like a big doll’s house, with her as the doll inside it.  \nWe knew a couple of people in common. One of them told me a funny story, about a dinner they’d attended at a restaurant, where M’s bodyguard had insisted that she change places with another film star, who was older and less famous, because he was worried that M’s position at the table exposed her to danger.  \nIt was hard not to feel ugly next to M. Part ofit was the ugliness of experience. I had never learned how to make experience easier for myself. For M it was the reverse. Her difficulty lay in her distance from the random violence of insignificance. Personally, I felt saturated with that violence. All my life it had been made clear to me how unimportant I was. M and I both secretly felt that it was the ways in which we had been damaged that had given us our power.  \nIt was autumn, and the city became inexorably colder and wetter and more grey. In the brand advertisements, M remained wreathed in the pink flowers of spring.  \nOn sunny mornings, people ran beside the river, men and women running past like gods in the sun, tall with dazzled eyes and windswept hair. Other men and women lived in tents beneath the stone bridges and brushed their teeth in the water fountains. Sometimes their shoes could be seen, placed neatly side by side outside the tent’s zipped entrance.  \nBeside one of the bridges, in the shelter of a high wall, was an outdoor cafe that was warm in the sun even on the coldest days. People sat there reading or looking at their phones. I was reading a book by a woman who had been sexually abused by her stepfather throughout her childhood. A lot of people knew about this book. It had come into the world and been seized upon and swallowed down, like a draught of something for which people were thirsty. The reason was the unusual tone of the writer’s voice, as she testified to things that by rights should have erased her. This tone was neither personal nor impersonal, it possessed a deep and unmistakable authority, the authority of an object. It was as if some household item—a chair, for instance—had suddenly gained the power to speak. The writer did not feel in any way sorry for herself, and this made her unbreakable. 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