Winner of the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award, this is one of the defining books of the 1970s, an experimental novel about a young journalist trying to navigate life in America.
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.
| ISBN: | 9781590176139 |
| Publication date: | 27th June 2013 |
| Author: | Renata Adler |
| Publisher: | New York Review Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 177 pages |
| Series: | New York Review Books Classics |
| Genres: |
General Fiction Street fiction / urban fiction Biographical fiction / autobiographical fiction |
Winner of the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award, this is one of the defining books of the 1970s, an experimental novel about a young journalist trying to navigate life in America. 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.
Speedboat features in the following genres: General Fiction, Street fiction / urban fiction, Biographical fiction / autobiographical fiction
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Speedboat was written by Renata Adler and published by New York Review Books
Speedboat has 177 pages
Yes it is part of New York Review Books Classics series