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Acts of Desperation

Acts of Desperation

Nolan, Megan

Paperback

General FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $18.99

ISBN10: 031642983X
ISBN13: 9780316429832
Publisher: Little, Brown Paperbacks
Published: Sep 27 2022
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.57
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.56 Depth: 8.24
Language: English
A riveting, cathartic literary debut 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.

A blistering anti-romance. --Catherine Lacey, author of Biography of X

Hot as viscera. --The New Republic

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