Crimp Imogen - A Very Nice Girl A Novel - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Selected for Malala's Book Club" Imogen Crimp's enjoyable debut novel is an all - too - real reminder of what it is to be a woman in your 20s." - The New York Times" Tender devastating witty. And deeply true. Sweetbitter meets Normal People." - Meg Mason author of Sorrow and Bliss A bitingly honest darkly funny debut about ambition sex power and love Imogen Crimp's A Very Nice Girl cracks open the timeless questions of what it is to be young what it is to want to be wanted and what it is to find your calling but lose your way to it. Anna doesn't fit in. Not with her wealthy classmates at the selective London Conservatory where she unexpectedly wins a place after university not with the family she left behind and definitely not with Max a man she meets in the bar where she sings for cash. He's everything she's not - rich tailored to precision impossible to read - and before long Anna is hooked desperate to hold his attention and determined to ignore the warning signs that this might be a toxic relationship. As Anna shuttles from grueling rehearsals to brutal auditions she finds herself torn between two conflicting desires: the drive to nurture her fledgling singing career which requires her undivided attention and the longing for human connection. When the stakes increase and the roles she's playing - both on stage and off - begin to feel all - consuming Anna must reckon with the fact that in carefully performing what's expected of her as a woman she risks losing sight of herself completely. Both exceedingly contemporary and classic A Very Nice Girl reminds us that even once we have taken possession of our destinies we still have the power to set all we hold dear on fire.
Title: A Very Nice Girl A Novel
Author(s): Crimp Imogen
Publisher: Henry Holt And Co.
Barcode: 9781250871077
Pages: 336 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 2/7/2023
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction