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A new paperback edition of Rachel Cusk's debut novel, winner of the Whitbread First Novel Award.

In Saving Agnes, Agnes Daysubeditor, suburbanite, failure extraordinairehas 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 facade she can pass herself off as a success. Beneath the fiction, however, the burden of truth becomes harder to bear.

Saving Agnes

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    A Paperback / softback by Rachel Cusk

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      Publisher Picador USA
      Published 1 February 2022
      ISBN-13 9781250828200
      978-1250828200
      ISBN-10 1250828201

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      A new paperback edition of Rachel Cusk's debut novel, winner of the Whitbread First Novel Award.

      In Saving Agnes, Agnes Daysubeditor, suburbanite, failure extraordinairehas 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 facade she can pass herself off as a success. Beneath the fiction, however, the burden of truth becomes harder to bear.

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