‘The Life of M’ by Rachel Cusk“I have disappointing news,” said Laura Miller in Slate. Rachel Cusk’s 11th novel, which has widely been rumored to be a dirt-dishing character assassination of a particular A-lister she’s been friendly with, “isn’t really about Natalie Portman at all.” Granted, the book concerns an actress, identified only as M, whose screen credits, including a breakthrough performance at 13, track with Portman’s. But the novel ma…
Rachel Cusk has portrayed the actress Natalie Portman in an unsuspecting way in her novel "The Life of the M" it says. The friendship of the two women is broken by it. Now the book gets ripped up in series. Why only?