Agnes Lives! - Hallie Elizabeth Newton

Category: General Fiction
Language: English
Keywords: dark humor

Written by Hallie Elizabeth Newton
Read by Hallie Elizabeth Newton
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins
Release date: 23/06/2026

“An astonishing debut as mesmerizing as it is unnerving.” –Joyce Carol Oates

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

“A tale of suspense, a statement, a cry for help, and a delicious tour-de-force.” –Nell Zink

New York City, 2014. Agnes Maurer seeks a willing murderer and wonders what she should wear. Candidates include: an icy magazine editor with a special cutlery set; an eccentric designer from her past; and Agnes’s cruel novelist boyfriend. As she Ubers from Upper East Side shopping to Craigslist gun deals, Agnes’ desperation becomes an exhibition, a swan song 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 existential despair that culminates in a worthy, intense denouement