Mona Acts Out by Mischa Berlinski - ISBN: 9781398549616
Hardcover
An actress flees her life, finding truth on a New York City adventure.

Mona Acts Out

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  • Hardcover

    320 pages

  • Release Date

    16 July 2025

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Summary

An exuberant, darkly humorous novel by the US National Book Award-shortlisted author of Fieldwork

Celebrated stage actress Mona Zahid wakes up on the morning of Thanksgiving to the clamour of guests packed into her Manhattan apartment and to a wave of dread: her in-laws are lurking on the other side of the bedroom door; she has been fighting with her husband; and in just a few weeks she will begin rehearsals to play Shakespeare’s Cleopatra, the most challenging role of her ca…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781398549616
ISBN-10:1398549614
Author:Mischa Berlinski
Publisher:Simon & Schuster Ltd
Imprint:Simon & Schuster Ltd
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:320
Release Date:16 July 2025
Weight:480g
Dimensions:234mm x 153mm x 23mm
What They're Saying

Critics Review

‘An instant-classic New York novel about theater, aging, sex and love’ – Joshua Cohen, author of Pulitzer Prize-winning The Netanyahus‘richly funny’ – Wendy Holden * Daily Mail *‘Witty but insightful … an engaging bittersweet novel’ – Rosemary Goring * Herald Scotland *‘Berlinski deserves a standing ovation for this bravura performance.’ * Publishers Weekly *‘Wonderfully constructed, witty, warm, wise, and filled with an extraordinary sense of the relation between theater and life’ * Kirkus Reviews *

About The Author

Mischa Berlinski

Mischa Berlinski is the author of two novels: Fieldwork (which was shortlisted for the US National Book Award) and Peacekeeping. He has written for the New York Review of Books, Men’s Journal, and Harper’s, and his work has been included in Best American Essays and Best American Travel Writing. He lives in Istanbul.

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