Inglorious

by Joanna Kavenna

Book Overview

A darkly comic novel about a woman on the edge of a nervous breakdown, set against the backdrop of a London awash with faithless lovers, cutthroat strivers, and so-called friends One day successful young journalist and dedicated urbanite Rosa Lane sends her boss an e-mail that says "I quit" and then walks out of her job. She can't explain why--not to Liam, who's lived with her for years; not to her friends; not to her anxious, recently widowed father...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805081895
• ISBN13: 9780805081893
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: Metropolitan Books
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.6" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

Difficult but fascinating read

I really didn't like the main protagonist for about the first third of this book but she had me hooked by the end. I think what really got me was the unflinching view of all the "actors" in this drama and the subtle slide into insanity or at least un-hinged-ness. The uncompromising view of the protagonist and her "friends", lovers and family.

Excellent Book

Brilliant writing. I liked how the story evolved, it was so undramatic which made the story more powerful and more real. The problems kept piling up, they seemed to gain a life of themselves. I am American but we seem to have this in common with the English, probably with the rest of the world to, is how debt with the interest rates, which I know on credit cards can go as high as 20% or more, can really become overwhelming. The woman in the story has all these other problems and she has the impersonal bank to deal with. Well, I didn't mean for this to become a complaint about the banking system but it seemed apt. In the end the only thing that the protagonist seems able to do is run. In the new world that seems like that will be more and more difficult to pick up and start over somewhere new. But again brilliant writing. I can't wait to read the author's first book and anything she chooses to write.