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Saving Agnes
A new paperback edition of Rachel Cusk’s debut novel, winner of the Whitbread First Novel Award.
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Winner of the Whitbread First Novel Award
Agnes Day – sub-editor, suburbanite, failure extraordinaire – has discovered disconcerting gaps in her general understanding of the world. Terminally middle-class and incurably romantic, Agnes finds herself chronically confused by the most basic interactions. Life and love go on without her, but with a little façade she can pass herself off as a success. Beneath the fiction, however, the burden of truth becomes harder to bear.
She is a writer with a poet’s eye for convincing detail, and touches on the raw emotions of life in a way that is affecting and true. Sceptical, ironic, beautifully resonant prose . . . A splendid novel.
A funny, knowing tale of middle-class, middle-twenties angst . . . Cool, resonant and accomplished.
Told with irony and insight and some surreally beautiful imagery. At times it made me laugh out loud.
Rachel Cusk is the author of Second Place (Prix Femina étranger), the Outline trilogy, the memoirs A Life’s Work and Aftermath, and several other works of fiction and nonfiction, including her most recent novel Parade (Goldsmiths Prize, 2024). She is a Guggenheim Fellow, the recipient of the 2024 Malaparte Prize, and has been awarded the title of Chevalier de l’ordre…
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