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Acts of Desperation by Megan Nolan is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Acts of Desperation about?

Heralding the arrival of "a huge literary talent" (Karl Ove Knausgaard), Megan Nolan's riveting debut is "a blistering anti-romance" (Catherine Lacey) 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? Combining the intellectual excitement of Rachel Cusk with the emotional rawness of Elena Ferrante, Acts of Desperation interrogates the nature of desire, power,

Who reads Acts of Desperation?

Author

Megan Nolan

Publisher

Little, Brown and Company

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9780316667647

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Contemporary Fiction

Rating

3.88 / 5 (160 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14