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Speedboat

By Renata Adler; Guy Trebay

Book information

Publisher
NYRB Classics
Year
2013
ISBN
1590176138, 9781590176139
Language
english
Format
MOBI
Filesize
285 kB (291440 bytes)
Edition
Paperback
Pages
177\0
Time added
2019-05-08 03:30:50

Description

Winner of the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. WhenSpeedboatburst on the scene in the late ’70s it was like nothing readers had encountered before. It seemed to disregard the rules of the novel, but it wore its unconventionality with ease. Reading it was a pleasure of a new, unexpected kind. Above all, there was its voice, ambivalent, curious, wry, the voice of Jen Fain, a journalist negotiating the fraught landscape of contemporary urban America. Party guests, taxi drivers, brownstone dwellers, professors, journalists, presidents, and debutantes fill these dispatches from the world as Jen finds it.         A touchstone over the years for writers as different as David Foster Wallace and Elizabeth Hardwick,Speedboatreturns to enthrall a new generation of readers.

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