Agnes Lives!

<p><b>Agnes Maurer has a plan. Before tomorrow’s spin class, she will find someone willing to kill her.</b></p><p>New York City, 2014: a place of gleaming towers, boutique fitness, designer handbags and, of course, existential despair. As Agnes wipes away the sweat from her early-morning SoulCycle she resolves that before her next lesson she will find someone happy to murder her.</p><p>Over the course of the following twenty-four hours, as she moves from apartment to office, from bar to rave, she scrolls from one contender to the next: an ice-cold magazine editor, a gun dealer found online, an older politician she dated as a teen, her cruel novelist boyfriend. As she does so, a portrait emerges from the loops and spools of her thought: of a place between beauty and rot, of a time between confidence and collapse, and of a woman between desire and destruction.</p><p>Written in exhilarating, hilarious, shocking prose, <i>Agnes Lives!</i> is an extraordinary debut novel from one of the most exciting new writers at work today, detailing everything chic, everything sexy and everything terrifyingly, crushingly depraved about a culture totally hung up on the image.</p><p><b>'An astonishing debut as mesmerizing as it is unnerving.' Joyce Carol Oates</b></p><p><b>'A tale of suspense, a statement, a cry for help, and a delicious tour-de-force.' Nell Zink</b></p>