Inglorious

When Rosa Lane, a promising young journalist, impulsively hits the send button on an email to her boss saying I quit, so begins her pursuit of enlightenment in the jungles of cutthroat London. As she embarks upon her quest for a sense of purpose, she is deceived by her lover, surprised by her friends, turned out by her roommate, threatened by her bank manager, picked over by prospective employers, and tormented by all the bizarre expectations of the modern world. An erudite and darkly comic novel, brimming with lacerating wit and compassion, Inglorious is a truly engrossing character study of a woman walking the edge between self-destruction and self-discovery.

Author: Joanna Kavenna
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: 05/27/2008
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780312427887

Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 08/10/2008 pg. 24
Commonweal 06/18/2010 pg. 28

About the Author

JOANNA KAVENNA is the author of The Ice Museum: In Search of the Lost Land of Thule. She has written for The New York Review of Books, The Guardian, and The Times Literary Supplement, among other publications.

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