'I can't think of a living stylist I admire more than Renata Adler' ELIF BATUMAN
'Luminously exact' NEW YORK TIMES
'It was as though the novel had outstretched arms and I fell in' PARIS REVIEW
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 enthral a new generation of readers.
A W&N Essential with an introduction by Hilton Als
| ISBN: | 9781399627528 |
| Publication date: | 26th March 2026 |
| Author: | Renata Adler |
| Publisher: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson an imprint of Orion |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 192 pages |
| Series: | W&N Essentials |
| Genres: |
Classic fiction: general and literary Publishing industry and journalism Narrative theme: Coming of age |
'I can't think of a living stylist I admire more than Renata Adler' ELIF BATUMAN
'Luminously exact' NEW YORK TIMES
'It was as though the novel had outstretched arms and I fell in' PARIS REVIEW
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 enthral a new generation of readers.
A W&N Essential with an introduction by Hilton Als
Speedboat features in the following genres: Classic fiction: general and literary, Publishing industry and journalism, Narrative theme: Coming of age
Speedboat is available in Paperback, Ebook
Speedboat was written by Renata Adler and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson an imprint of Orion
Speedboat has 192 pages
Yes it is part of W&N Essentials series
£9.89