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Arlington Park, by Rachel Cusk (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $23). Cusk's sixth novel portrays the lives of contemporary middle- and upper-middle-class English mothers living in a placid, prestigious London suburb "where women drank coffee all day and pushed prams around the grey, orderly streets." Its residents include a successful recruiter turned obsessive homemaker, a woman who married up and feels the constant "presence of the enormous darkness from which she had come," and a frustrated city transplant who blames her parents for her aimlessness and tells her...
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