$54.34
- Hardcover
208 pages
- Release Date
4 February 2027
Summary
Gym by Verena Kessler is a sweat-slicked, painfully funny novel about obsession, ambition and a woman’s doomed attempt to run from herself. Translated from the German by Lucy Lee Jones.
A woman walks into a gym and lies to get a job.
The gym is a palace of possibility. Here she can transform and start a new life, away from emails and presentations and stressful promotions.
And she can finally get her probation officer off her back.
When people …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781037406782 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1037406788 |
| Author: | Verena Kessler, Lucy Lee Jones |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan |
| Imprint: | Macmillan |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 4 February 2027 |
| Dimensions: | 135mm x 216mm |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
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Critics Review
Verena Kessler never tells stories with a raised finger; she does so lightly, amusingly, and comically, and quite wickedly … Truly magnificent! – Christine Westermann
Maximum entertainment … This book goes down like a good techno spinning class: fast-paced, sweaty, and not a second too long – Thore Rausch
Kessler mercilessly holds a mirror up to everyone who knows ambition, doggedness, and the pressure to be perfect, driving her protagonist into a delusion from which there is no escape – #unhingedwomen at its best – Linn Könnecke
In the mirrors of the mega-gym, we look ourselves in the eye. Verena Kessler tells the story of the abysses of our time in a way that is incredibly gripping, dazzling, and funny – Ruth-Maria Thomas
A truly funny and witty work * Cherrypicker, Goethe Institut *
Verena Kessler
Verena Kessler was born in 1988 in Hamburg and lives in Leipzig. Her debut novel, Die Gespenster von Demmin (The Ghosts of Demmin), was nominated for numerous prizes and was awarded the Kranichsteiner Youth Literature Fellowship. Her novel Eva won the literary ‘Der zweite Roman’ prize. Gym is her third novel.
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