{"product_id":"agnes-lives-9781639738564","title":"Agnes Lives!","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"An astonishing debut as mesmerizing as it is unnerving.\" -Joyce Carol Oates\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA day-in-the-life debut novel about a fading socialite on the hunt for someone to kill her before her next SoulCycle class.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A tale of suspense, a statement, a cry for help, and a delicious tour-de-force.\" -Nell Zink\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNew 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 class she resolves that before her next lesson she will find someone happy to murder her. Over the course of the following twenty-four hours, as she moves from apartment to office to bar to Barney's, she scrolls from one contender to the next: an ice-cold magazine editor, a Craigslist gun dealer, 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.\u003cbr\u003eWritten in exhilarating, shocking prose, \u003ci\u003eAgnes Lives!\u003c\/i\u003e 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 image.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/23\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781639738564\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.25h x 5.51w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/06\/2026\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Hallie Elizabeth Newton","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52472901337269,"sku":"9781639738564","price":22.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_2a090b70-4257-4d9d-a60f-59d93ef1d531.jpg?v=1777444704","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/agnes-lives-9781639738564","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}