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 WINNER OF THE WHITBREAD FIRST NOVEL AWARD ''A writer with a poet''s eye for convincing detail.'' Sunday Telegraph ''A funny, knowing tale of middle-class, middle-twenties angst ... Cool, resonant, and accomplished.'' Independent ''Told with irony and insight and some surreally beautiful imagery. At times it made me laugh out loud.'' Sheila MacKay 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. A new paperback edition of Rachel Cusk's debut novel, winner of the Whitbread First Novel Award. Zusammenfassung WINNER OF THE WHITBREAD FIRST NOVEL AWARD'A writer with a poet's eye for convincing detail.' Sunday Telegraph'A funny, knowing tale of middle-class, middle-twenties angst ...

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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.

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WINNER OF THE WHITBREAD FIRST NOVEL AWARD

''A writer with a poet''s eye for convincing detail.'' Sunday Telegraph
''A funny, knowing tale of middle-class, middle-twenties angst ... Cool, resonant, and accomplished.'' Independent
''Told with irony and insight and some surreally beautiful imagery. At times it made me laugh out loud.'' Sheila MacKay

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.

Zusammenfassung
WINNER OF THE WHITBREAD FIRST NOVEL AWARD'A writer with a poet's eye for convincing detail.' Sunday Telegraph'A funny, knowing tale of middle-class, middle-twenties angst ...