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Inglorious

By Joanna Kavenna

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| Paperback | 9780571232604

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A darkly comic novel about a woman on the edge of a nervous breakdown, set against the backdrop of a London awash with faithless lovers, cutthroat strivers, and so-called friends
One day successful young journalist and dedicated urbanite Rosa Lane sends her boss an e-mail that says “I quit” an Continue

A darkly comic novel about a woman on the edge of a nervous breakdown, set against the backdrop of a London awash with faithless lovers, cutthroat strivers, and so-called friends
One day successful young journalist and dedicated urbanite Rosa Lane sends her boss an e-mail that says “I quit” and then walks out of her job. She can’t explain why—not to Liam, who’s lived with her for years; not to her friends; not to her anxious, recently widowed father. All Rosa knows is that she needs to find enlightenment, to somehow understand her mother’s death and do more than just earn her living.

Thus begins the piercingly wise and bitingly funny odyssey of Rosa Lane. Along the way, she is deceived by her lover, evicted by her roommate, threatened by her bank manager, picked over by prospective employers, befuddled by philosophy, and tormented by omnivorous London. Brought very low indeed, Rosa in her desperation makes a final assault on those who have done her wrong, leading to the beginning of her return to normality—whatever that is.

In a remarkable fiction debut, Joanna Kavenna displays lacerating wit, a perfect eye for social hypocrisies, and great depths of compassion to create a triumphant modern heroine.

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  • Travel in mind

    Inglorious by Joanna Kavenna 273pp, Faber, £11.99 In her travel book The Ice Museum, which was longlisted for the Guardian first book award, Joanna Kavenna embarked on a quest to find the mythic land of Thule, a journey that led her deep into frozen ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

  • Inglorious

    “You’re depressed,” a doctor tells Rosa, the thirty-five-year-old heroine of this début novel. It is one of many simplistic diagnoses offered by Rosa’s acquaintances, who are shocked when, months after her mother’s death, she quits her job as a newsp ... (read full critics)

    newyorker published on Thu, 26 Aug 2010

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 272 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 0571232604
  • ISBN-13: 9780571232604
  • Publisher: Faber and Faber
  • Pub date: Jun 07, 2007
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