Agnes Lives! (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781639738564)

A day-in-the-life debut novel about a fading socialite on the hunt for someone to kill her before her next Soul Cycle class.

New York City, 2014. Agnes Maurer is seeking the appropriate killer. Candidates include: an icy magazine editor with a special cutlery set; a Craigslist gun dealer; and Agnes' toxic novelist boyfriend. In her hunt, she stumbles into unexpected detours: cleansing crystals, must-have handbags, a Tesla ride where someone else dies, naked housekeeping, and an encounter with deep, dark water.

Through a murderously attuned kaleidoscope stained with image, money, and sex, Agnes' dwindling hours of icon-filled privilege become a breathless search for self. Asking for It is a killer exhibition, an obsessive rendering of millennial sexuality as internalized abuse and consummate style, with the knob righty-tightened all the way. Newton's prose is disturbingly fun, relentless, shattering. A crafted study of mid-aughts values that have brought us to where we are now. The ping-pong pacing crashes into a worthy, intense denouement.

Author: Hallie Elizabeth Newton
ISBN-10: 1639738568
ISBN-13: 9781639738564
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Language: English
Published: 06/23/2026
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.25h x 5.51w x 1.00d