{"product_id":"acts-of-desperation","title":"Acts of Desperation","description":"A riveting, cathartic literary debut about love, addiction, and what it does to us.\n\nWouldn’t I do anything to reverse my loss, the absence of him?\n\nIn the first scene of this provocative gut-punch of a novel, our unnamed narrator meets a magnetic writer named Ciaran and falls, against her better judgment, completely in his power. After a brief, all-consuming romance he abruptly rejects her, sending her into a tailspin of jealous obsession and longing. If he ever comes back to her, she resolves to hang onto him and his love at all costs, even if it destroys her ...\n\nPart breathless confession, part lucid critique, Acts of Desperation renders a consciousness split between rebellion and submission, between escaping degradation and eroticizing it, between loving and being lovable. With unsettling, electric precision, Nolan dissects one of life’s most elusive mysteries: Why do we want what we want, and how do we want it?\n\nHeralding the arrival of a stunning new literary talent, Acts of Desperation interrogates the nature of fantasy, desire, and power, challenging us to reckon honestly with our own insatiability.\n\n“A blistering anti-romance.” —Catherine Lacey, author of Biography of X\n\n\"Hot as viscera.\" —The New Republic\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 031642983X\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.031642983X.VG\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Very Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Nolan, Megan\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Pages are clean with no markings. May show minor signs of wear or cosmetic defects  marks, cuts, bends, or scuffs  on the cover, spine, pages, or dust jacket. May have remainder marks on edges.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41580518146106,"sku":"DBV.031642983X.VG","price":10.36,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/031642983X-0.jpg?v=1785997411","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/acts-of-desperation","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}