Speedboat
£9.99
With an introduction by Hilton Als
by Adler, Renata | Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Published 22/07/2021 by Orion Publishing Co (Weidenfeld & Nicolson) in the United Kingdom as part of the W&N Essentials series
Paperback | 192 pages
Description
Jen Fain is a journalist negotiating the fraught landscape of 1970s New York. Party guests, taxi drivers, brownstone dwellers, professors, journalists, presidents, and debutantes fill these dispatches from the world as she finds it.
Simultaneously novel, memoir, commonplace book, confession, and critique ? Speedboat is funny, disturbing, cutting, brilliant unlike anything that had come before. Since it burst onto the scene in the 1970s, it has enthralled generations of readers and been a touchstone for writers including David Foster Wallace, Claudia Rankine and Jenny Offill.
With an introduction by Hilton Als
