Female ageing and desire, sexual agency in the era of #MeToo, the relationship between morality and art, even a nod to Stephen King's Misery: it's all here in this sexy stealthy slippery debut, one of the year's hottest reads. * The Daily Mail * This deliciously dark American debut . . . A boisterous campus novel with an outrageously acerbic narrator, it delivers uncomfortable truths * The Guardian * This impressive debut . . . A twisty and thought-provoking tale * The Sunday Times/The Times * Haunted by the spirit of Nabokov, this sly satire challenges todays insistence on morality in art * The Daily Telegraph * This astonishing debut is anything but another #MeToo morality tale . . . I was utterly hooked . . . [ by] this twisty, sexy, shocking treat of a novel . . . How on earth will Julia May Jonas better this? * The Sunday Times * Darkly comic . . . Jonass novel is full of sly satire . . . The first-person narrative is beautifully rich, and the novel is playing enjoyable games with the ghost of Nabokov throughout * The Daily Telegraph * Vladimir is peppered with subversions . . . Jonas artfully fashions a protagonist mired in contradictions . . . [ An] intelligent knowing portrayal of a woman's midlife crisis * The Observer * This slippery debut challenges to often electrifying effect the moral pieties concerning women, sex and power that have sprung up in the wake of #MeToo . . . A welcome addition to the growing number of #MeToo novels, many of which feel in comparison a little tired * The Daily Mail * It is delicious to spend so much time with a narrator who wants the way this one does, who wants so badly shell send her life up in flames. * Vanity Fair * Jonas's assured debut may be operating in Nabokov's long shadow, but it's difficult not to gobble up the unadorned, plot-driven prose, with its hints of kidnap and bondage, at a greedy pace * The Literary Review * [ An] engaging debut . . . [ Jonass] storylines are full of nuance, loopholes, granular details that refuse easy definition * The Irish Times * 'Vladimir contains far too many uncomfortable truths to be merely fun, but . . . it is, by turns, cathartic, devious and terrifically entertaining. * New York Times * 'Vladimir goes into such outrageous territory that my jaw literally dropped at moments while I was reading it. Theres a rare blend here of depth of character, mesmerizing prose, and fast-paced action. * Boston Globe * In darkly funny terms, Jonas creates a portrait of a narcissist reckoning with her age and vanity, but also the limits of her power. * Time * What is more delicious than the despicable narrator? . . . Jonas, with a potent, pumping voice, has drawn a character so powerfully candid that when she does things that are malicious, dangerous and, yes, predatory, we only want her to do them again. * Los Angeles Times * If Netflixs The Chair, Lisa Taddeos bestseller Three Women, and the most compelling passages of Ottessa Moshfeghs Death in Her Hands had a love child (just go with me here), it would be this fiction debut . . . Vladimir leaves the reader with more questions than answersabout sex, and sexual politicsin the most delicious way. * Entertainment Weekly * Funny, wise and instantly engaging, Vladimir is how I like my thrill rides: brainy and sexy. -- Maria Semple, author of Where'd You Go Bernadette Vladimir is a thrilling debut smart, sharp, and über provocative. I devoured it with fascination and awe. -- Lily King, author of Writers & Lovers A whip smart and ferociously clever tale of swirling allegiances, literary rivalries, and romantic tripwires detonating hidden mines Vladimir is an extraordinary debut. -- Adrienne Brodeur, author of Wild Game Droll, dry, and pacy, Vladimir is deliciously unsparing and enormous fun. -- Lionel Shriver, author of We Need To Talk About Kevin Brilliant and very funny -- Patrick Radden Keefe, author of Empire of Pain
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