{"product_id":"agnes-lives","title":"Agnes Lives!","description":"\n\u003ctable align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"productDetailSmallElements\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eHallie Elizabeth Newton \u003c\/b\u003ewas born in Mississippi. A recipient of NYU's Goldwater Fellowship, she won first prize for fiction in Columbia Journal's 2020 Winter Contest. \n\u003ci\u003eAgnes Lives!\u003c\/i\u003e is her debut novel. She lives in New York.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"There's plenty of reference catnip for a niche reader in this hip, propulsive tale . . . [Newton's] style is electrically distinctive. In pyrotechnic passages, she recreates the vibe and tenor of an internet that's just on the edge of turning sour. Sentences that fizzle and scorch will also appeal to fans of Jade Sharma and Mary Robison, other bards of women on the absolute verge. Agnes is emphatically not for everyone, but I was thrilled . . . to encounter this voice.\" --\u003ci\u003eLiterary Hub\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"An astonishing debut as mesmerizing as it is unnerving. Like a surreal film it unfolds before us vivid as a nightmare from which we are unable to look away; by turns wildly funny, harrowing, and moving.\" -- \n\u003ci\u003eJoyce Carol Oates, National Humanities Medal, NBCC's Ivan Sandrof Life Achievement Award, and National Book Award-winning author of FOX\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"We've had to wait too long for Hallie Newton. Everybody feels like her-at our best, at our worst-but there isn't another person who sounds like her. And now here she finally is. An astonishing-a powerfully good-writer. \n\u003ci\u003eAgnes Lives! \u003c\/i\u003eis like an undertow reaching for your ankles-and then suddenly you're out into the deep waters, with a view that is overall and surprisingly lovely. Hallie Newton writes like nobody else: deeper, sharper, truer, utterly without fear. We needed her for a long time. Here she is. \n\u003ci\u003eAgnes Lives!\u003c\/i\u003e is the debut we've waited on, the best I've read in forever.\" -- \n\u003ci\u003eDavid Lipsky, New York Times bestselling author of THE PARROT AND THE IGLOO\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Unsettling, compelling, mysterious, and also, well, so fun to read. Newton's first novel is a marvelous debut.\" -- \n\u003ci\u003eRivka Galchen, author of EVERYONE KNOWS YOUR MOTHER IS A WITCH\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"The closest I've ever been to the world of this novel was when I used to use the ladies room at Bergdorf's, which was on a high floor but right next to the elevator. It took me serious acclimation to settle in, as if it were one of those science fiction novels full of invented common nouns. Then it took off, like a runaway stagecoach pulled by the four horsemen of the apocalypse. When I realized what its metafictional project was--not to kill off Agnes, though there's nothing she wants more--I wanted to write Newton a fan letter. \n\u003ci\u003eAgnes Lives!\u003c\/i\u003e is a tale of suspense, a statement, a cry for help, and a delicious tour-de-force of the higher consumerist sleaze porn morass.\" -- \n\u003ci\u003eNell Zink, author of SISTER EUROPE\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A ferocious New York novel. \n\u003ci\u003eWoodcutters \u003c\/i\u003emeets \n\u003ci\u003eEyes Wide Shut\u003c\/i\u003e.\" -- \n\u003ci\u003eAmie Barrodale, author of TRIP\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\" \n\u003ci\u003eAgnes Lives!\u003c\/i\u003e is a ferociously smart debut. Hallie Elizabeth Newton is Jean Rhys for the SoulCycle generation. Agnes is an indelible, gimlet-eyed narrator with a deceptively tender heart. If you spent the Obama era tapping it back in Lululemon, consider yourself trigger-warned.\" -- \n\u003ci\u003eIsabel Kaplan, author of NSFW\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Frenzied and propulsive, Newton's debut captures a mind that refuses to quiet.\" -- \n\u003ci\u003eAnna Dorn, author of AMERICAN SPIRITS\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"[A] whirlwind, wholly original debut novel . . . Told strictly in Agnes' voice (even the dialogue is one-sided), this is a deep dive into a millennial mind in free fall. It's dark but also funny, disturbing yet identifiable, and while it goes off the rails toward the end, it's a trip worth taking.\" -- \n\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"It took me a minute to pick up on this novel's sly humor, but once I did, I was all in . . . The novel, which chronicles New York City life in the 2000s and 2010s for an unhappy privileged person, reminds me of Ottessa Moshfegh's \n\u003ci\u003eMy Year of Rest and Relaxation\u003c\/i\u003e, except that it does an even better job at making fun of the hipster era.\" -- \n\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly, \"PW Picks\"\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"An astonishing debut as mesmerizing as it is unnerving.\" --Joyce Carol Oates\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\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 \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\"A tale of suspense, a statement, a cry for help, and a delicious tour-de-force.\" --Nell Zink\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNew York City, 2014. Agnes Maurer seeks a willing murderer and wonders what she should wear. Candidates include: an icy magazine editor with a special cutlery set; an eccentric designer from her past; and Agnes's cruel novelist boyfriend. As she Ubers from Upper East Side shopping to Craigslist gun deals, Agnes' desperation becomes an exhibition, a swan song of millennial sexuality as internalized abuse and consummate style, with the knob righty-tightened all the way. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNewton's prose is disturbingly fun, relentless, shattering. A crafted study of existential despair that culminates in a worthy, intense denouement. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations:\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/span\u003e 04\/06\/2026 (EAN 9781639738564, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eBooklist\u003c\/span\u003e 06\/01\/2026 (EAN 9781639738564, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eContributor Bio:\u003c\/strong\u003eNewton, Hallie Elizabeth\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eHallie Elizabeth Newton \u003c\/b\u003ewas born in Mississippi. A recipient of NYU's Goldwater Fellowship, she won first prize for fiction in Columbia Journal's 2020 Winter Contest. \n\u003ci\u003eAgnes Lives!\u003c\/i\u003e is her debut novel. 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