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"She's twenty-three and in love with love. He's older and the most beautiful man she's ever seen. The affair is quickly consuming. But this relationship is upredictable, and behind his perfect looks is a mean streak. She's intent on winning him over, but neither is living up to the other's ideals. He keeps emailing his glamorous ex, and she's starting to give in to secret, shameful cravings of her own. The search for a fix is frantic and taking a dangerous turn... With unsettling, mesmerizing power, Acts of Desperation dissects one of life's most elusive mysteries: Why do we want what we want, and how do we want it?"--From back cover.…mehr

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"She's twenty-three and in love with love. He's older and the most beautiful man she's ever seen. The affair is quickly consuming. But this relationship is upredictable, and behind his perfect looks is a mean streak. She's intent on winning him over, but neither is living up to the other's ideals. He keeps emailing his glamorous ex, and she's starting to give in to secret, shameful cravings of her own. The search for a fix is frantic and taking a dangerous turn... With unsettling, mesmerizing power, Acts of Desperation dissects one of life's most elusive mysteries: Why do we want what we want, and how do we want it?"--From back cover.
Autorenporträt
Megan Nolan was born in Waterford, Ireland and lives in London. Her essays, fiction and reviews published in the New York Times, the White Review, the New Statesman, the Sunday Times, the Village Voice, the Guardian, and in the literary anthology Winter Papers. Acts of Desperation is her first novel.