Informationen zum Autor Rachel Cusk was born in 1967 and is the author of eight novels: Saving Agnes ! which won the Whitbread First Novel Award! The Temporary ! The Country Life ! which won a Somerset Maugham Award! The Lucky Ones ! which was shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel Award! In the Fold ! Arlington Park ! which was shortlisted for the Orange Prize! The Bradshaw Variations and Outline . Her non-fiction books are A Life's Work ! The Last Supper and Aftermath . In 2003 she was chosen as one of Granta 's Best of Young Novelists. Klappentext Agnes Day - sub-editor! suburbanite! failure extraordinaire - is unwell. Terminally middle-class! incurably romantic and chronically confused by life's most basic interactions! Agnes discovers disconcerting gaps in her general understanding of the world! making recovery unlikely. Rachel Cusk's Whitbread-winning debut Saving Agnes is a funny, knowing tale of middle-class, middle-twenties angst. Zusammenfassung Agnes Day - sub-editor! suburbanite! failure extraordinaire - is unwell. Terminally middle-class! incurably romantic and chronically confused by life's most basic interactions! Agnes discovers disconcerting gaps in her general understanding of the world! making recovery unlikely. Life and love go on without her! but with a little facade! 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.' Sunday Telegraph 'Told with irony and insight and some surreally beautiful imagery. At times it made me laugh out loud.' Sheila Mackay

Vorwort
Rachel Cusk's Whitbread-winning debut Saving Agnes is a funny, knowing tale of middle-class, middle-twenties angst.

Autorentext
Rachel Cusk was born in 1967 and is the author of eight novels: Saving Agnes, which won the Whitbread First Novel Award, The Temporary, The Country Life, which won a Somerset Maugham Award, The Lucky Ones, which was shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel Award, In the Fold, Arlington Park, which was shortlisted for the Orange Prize, The Bradshaw Variations and Outline. Her non-fiction books are A Life's Work, The Last Supper and Aftermath. In 2003 she was chosen as one of Granta's Best of Young Novelists.

Klappentext

Agnes Day - sub-editor, suburbanite, failure extraordinaire - is unwell. Terminally middle-class, incurably romantic and chronically confused by life's most basic interactions, Agnes discovers disconcerting gaps in her general understanding of the world, making recovery unlikely.

Zusammenfassung

Agnes Day - sub-editor, suburbanite, failure extraordinaire - is unwell. Terminally middle-class, incurably romantic and chronically confused by life's most basic interactions, Agnes discovers disconcerting gaps in her general understanding of the world, making recovery unlikely. Life and love go on without her, but with a little facade, 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.' Sunday Telegraph

'Told with irony and insight and some surreally beautiful imagery. At times it made me laugh out loud.' Sheila Mackay