Bibliograph

Speedboat, Renata Adler ; afterword by Guy Trebay

Type

Label

Speedboat, Renata Adler ; afterword by Guy Trebay

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Speedboat

Oclc number

793579013

Responsibility statement

Renata Adler ; afterword by Guy Trebay

Series statement

New York Review Books classics

Summary

A series of vignettes which follow the life and travels of Jen Fain, a beautiful and intelligent journalist"It has been more than thirty-five years since Renata Adler's Speedboat, Winner of the Ernest Hemingway Award for Best First Novel, charged through the literary establishment, blasting genre walls and pointing the way for a newly liberated way of writing. This unclassifiable work is simultaneously novel, memoir, commonplace book, confession, and critique. It is the story of every man and woman cursed with too much consciousness and too little comprehension, and it is the story of Jen Fein, a journalist negotiating the fraught landscape of contemporary urban America. Her voice is searching, cuttingly perceptive, and darkly funny as she breaks narrative convention to send dispatches back from the world as she finds it"--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Castling -- Quiet -- Brownstone -- Speedboat -- Islands -- What war -- The agency

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