"A sex masterpiece" (Guardian)
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"[An] extraordinary debut novel, Acts of Service, [is] a work of ferocious moral and sensual intelligence and a masterly defence of sex for its own sake. * The Guardian * "Acts of Service is a stylish, elegant piece of provocation that is also as sincere and searching as its heroine. Even if it pisses you off, it's hard not to keep turning the pages. It's a bold, promising debut." * Mary Gaitskill * "An exhilarating and memorable literary exploration of sex and power dynamics." * British Vogue * One of the most searching and enthralling novels about human attraction and connection that Ive read in many years. Part erotic Bildungsroman, part melancholy comedy of manners, it arrives with quiet confidence and a fully formed bank of ideas about intimacy, sexual ethics and contemporary mores that Fishman could go on exploring for years to come. -- Johanna Thomas-Corr * The New Statesman * Both insanely erotic and intellectually challenging, one of those books we never wanted to end. * COSMOPOLITAN * A fabulous debut." * Independent * This one had me hooked from the first sentence.its heady, exhilarating, and will change the way you look at the world. The perfect read for fans of Raven Leilani and Ottessa Moshfegh, this is a book that will have people talking. * BuzzFeed * "A young woman follows her exhibitionist streak to uncharted new territory in this bold and unflinchingly sexy novel, engaging in a three-way sexual relationship that teaches her more than she could have imagined about her own desire." * VOGUE * "I was completely absorbed by this radical, daring and bracing novel about a so-cold and yet so-intimate world where safety and pleasure can only be found in the most unlikely and unpredictable of places. It is a book of exciting, provocative complexity, and, for me, it made the human creature feel like something new." * Sheila Heti, author of Motherhood and Pure Colour * Acts of Service doesnt kiss you first; it gets right to itdepicting the liquid frequencies of need and power with a thoughtful, savage eye. * Raven Leilani, author of Luster * "Reading 'Acts of Service' I felt the uncanny sensation of being in the presence of its narrator, observing me as I tore through its pages. Fishmans Eve, heir to Eve Babitz, makes us complicit in her interrogation of desire with an erotic, cerebral, subversive and tormenting tale, a reckoning formed in the cracks between certainties, like the cooling magma that rises between tectonic plates; between voyeurism and complicity, intimacy and alienation, the body and the mind." * Olivia Sudjic, author of Sympathy and Asylum Road * A book of exquisite moral refinement and almost intimidating elegance. * Edmund White, author of A Boys Own Story and States of Desire * Taut, thorny, and sublimely fraught, Acts of Service stares straight into the white-hot center of desire with a cool, incisive eye. This book is electric. * Alexandra Kleeman, author of Something New Under the Sun * "Disturbing, erotic, completely compulsive; quickeningly captivating, provocative in ways that I am still turning over." * Lucy Caldwell, author of These Days * Seamlessly written, sedate and subtle and so pleasurable, and quite enrapturing on a psychological level. This book opens space for a new kind of precision and intelligence that gives the amoral opulence of desire its rightful place. * Niamh Campbell, author of This Happy and We Were Young * "Lillian Fishman is not just a brilliant writershes a brilliant feeler, a great thinker. She has the gift we open books for. * David Lipsky, author of The Art Fair * With deep eroticism and stunning prose, Lillian Fishman explores sex and the self with delicious seriousness and sensuality. I didn't want it to end. * Saskia Vogel, author of Permission * I cannot recall the last time I f
Lillian Fishman received her MFA from NYU, where she was a Jill Davis Fellow (2020). She lives in New York. Acts of Service is her first novel.