Book : Acts Of Desperation - Nolan, Megan

-Titulo Original : Acts Of Desperation

-Fabricante :

Back Bay Books

-Descripcion Original:

Heralding the arrival of “a huge literary talent” (Karl Ove Knausgaard), Megan Nolan’s riveting debut is “a blistering anti-romance” (Catherine Lacey) about love addiction and what it does to us. Wouldn’t I do anything to reverse my loss, the absence of him? In the first scene of this provocative gut-punch of a novel, our unnamed narrator meets a magnetic writer named Ciaran and falls, against her better judgment, completely in his power. After a brief, all-consuming romance he abruptly rejects her, sending her into a tailspin of jealous obsession and longing. If he ever comes back to her, she resolves to hang onto him and his love at all costs, even if it destroys her… Part breathless confession, part lucid critique, Acts of Desperation renders a consciousness split between rebellion and submission, between escaping degradation and eroticizing it, between loving and being lovable. With unsettling, electric precision, Nolan dissects one of life’s most elusive mysteries: Why do we want what we want, and how do we want it? Heralding the arrival of a stunning new literary talent, Acts of Desperation interrogates the nature of fantasy, desire, and power, challenging us to reckon honestly with our own insatiability. Hot as viscera. - The New Republic Review Longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize?Glamour’s Best Books of MarchEntertainment Weekly’s Must-Read Books of March TIME Best Books of the YearBustle’s Most Anticipated Debuts Goodreads Most Anticipated Debuts LitHub’s Most Anticipated Books of the Year The Millions’ Most Anticipated Books of the YearThe Observer’s Best Debut Novelists of 2021 Chicago Public Library Best Books of the Year ` “Megan Nolan is a huge literary talent, and her first novel, Acts of Desperation, is a love story like no other. The writing is intense and honest, with a rare access to real life, but it is also reflective and full of insights, and with this combination the novel manages to separate the idea of love and the experience of it, and take the reader to the place where it comes into being.” KARL OVE KNAUSGAARD “Megan Nolan writes with piercing vulnerability and precision. Her debut novel, Acts of Desperation is a blistering anti-romance about the seductive destruction of trying to find self-worth in the gaze of another.” CATHERINE LACEY, author of PEW and THE ANSWERS I devoured this book, my heart trilling with equal parts terror and exhilaration. It is an emotional thriller, a portrait of obsession-its pleasures and powerlessness, its inevitable corruption not only of integrity, but even selfhood. Nolans prose is cool and liquid, her content perfectly scorching. I loved this taut and torturous ode to the parts of us that persist, even as we are wrecked by love. MELISSA FEBOS, author of ABANDON ME and WHIP SMART “Nolan’s raw and uncannily insightful writing glimmers in a way that will shed new light onto wounds both healed and open - and possibly save some other nameless woman the suffering. She tells the truth about obsession and drains it of all allure.” NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW “Wrenching…a chronicle of a sinister, deeply imbalanced and unsettlingly familiar romantic relationship…Nolan’s writing gleams with dark precision. Her narrator’s piercing, almost perverse self-awareness makes the action both more sad and more urgent…The decision to hold in suspicion the very form she is enacting is what makes the book refreshing and complex. What Acts of Desperation illuminates best is the chasm, sadly still enormous, between feminist politics and personal predicaments of love, sex and romance. The novel is a powerful counterweight to the notion that young women today are free to define themselves apart from men…It is satisfying to see a young female narrator wrest control of the story of her debasement, to show both its specificity and its utter sameness, her victimhood and her complicity.” LOS ANGELES TIMES “Nolan spins roman