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    Saving Agnes
    Saving Agnes
    Saving Agnes
    Audiobook8 hours

    Saving Agnes

    Written by Rachel Cusk

    Narrated by Jenny Sterlin

    3/5

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    About this audiobook

    Winner of the British Whitbread First Novel Award, Saving Agnes is a delight to the ear of any listener who enjoys the English language at its best. Rachel Cusk's prose, rich with poetic imagery and insight, is spell-binding. Agnes Day is not quite certain of her own identity. Defining herself by her past failures and fearful of her future, she trudges through her days despising her editing job and searching for that special someone to help her forget the lover who jilted her. Although her naive attempts to bolster her self-esteem culminate in a series of one-night-stands and an affair with a mysterious heroin addict, Agnes' indomitable sense of humor somehow sustains her. Narrator Jenny Sterlin's British accent is the perfect accompaniment to a creation that is meant to be appreciated aloud in its native dialect. Her reading captures every nuance of mood and language to give listeners an unforgettable listening experience.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateJul 18, 2008
    ISBN9781436145039
    Saving Agnes
    Author

    Rachel Cusk

    Rachel Cusk is the author of Second Place, the Outline trilogy, the memoirs A Life’s Work and Aftermath, and several other works of fiction and nonfiction. She is a Guggenheim Fellow. She lives in Paris.

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    • 2/5
      No, no and just… no. I get that the story is supposed to be about middle-class angst in the form of a 20-something woman, fresh from college and embarking on the “big bad world” of adult life, but the delivery of the story is just plain torturous. I can appreciate that Cusk has a wonderful grasp of the English language, but it is almost as if she is too busy using her story as a showcase for her brilliant turns of phrase (like “hormonal terrorism” to describe a woman’s monthly cycle) and wants the reader to appreciate her writing over he story being told. Given that [Saving Agnes] was published when Cusk was only in her mid-twenties, which helps explain why the story stutters between youthful naivety and worldly observations… the story comes across as something rather too ambitious for the author to tackle. While I tend to like stories of a young professional woman trying to find herself in large metropolitan centre like London and New York, by the end of the story I was left thinking, “That was a long, arduous journey for the scant realization obtained.” I know, there are some readers out there who feel that Saving Agnes is a brilliant book – it did win the 1993 Whitbread Award, so it must be appreciated by some readers – but it just came across as some convoluted expression of young adulthood immaturity and drama to me and I have never been more happy to reach the end of a story.