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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.
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
"What's new. What else. What next. What's happened here." Pitch Dark, Renata Adler's follow-up to her prizewinning novel Speedboat, is a book of questions. It is also a book of false starts, red herrings, misunderstandings, and all-too-fleeting revelations. Kate Ennis is poised at a critical moment in her affair with a married lover, and moments (conversations, things unsaid, misunderstandings) of that fraught relationship reverberate throughout the novel, following Kate from her house in rural Connecticut and her New York City brownstone apartment, to a small island off the coast of Washington, and to an utterly dark road in a remote corner of Ireland. Told in Adler's celebrated fragmented style, and constructed from the bare-bones language of everyday life, Pitch Dark transcends its parts to come to the kind of wisdom achievable only after a relentless quest.
From a legendary journalist and star writer at "The New Yorker" --
one of the most revered institutions in publishing -- an insider's
look at the magazine's tumultuous yet glorious years under the
direction of the enigmatic William Shawn.
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