Speedboat by Renata Adler
Winner of the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. When Speedboat burst 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, Speedboat returns to enthrall a new generation of readers.Renata Adler's career as a reporter, novelist, and short story writer, intellectual gadfly, and New Yorker staffer is unsurpassed. She was a Guggenheim Fellow, a Fulbright Scholar, a Woodrow Wilson Scholar, and the film critic for The New York Times after receiving her education at Bryn Mawr, Harvard, the Sorbonne, and Yale Law School. She lives in New York and is the author of prize-winning short stories, a prize-winning novel (Speedboat), a number of other highly regarded books, and innumerable admired and controversial pieces for journals such as The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The Atlantic Monthly, National Review, New Republic, and others.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780060971434 |
| ISBN 10 | 0060971436 |
| Title | Speedboat |
| Author | Renata Adler |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Harpercollins |
| Year published | 1988-02-01 |
| Number of pages | 0 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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