Speedboat

Name: Speedboat
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ISBN: 9781590176139

ISBN-10: 1590176138

ISBN-13: 9781590176139

Edition: 2013

Authors: Renata Adler, Guy Trebay

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Winner of the Ernest Hemingway Prize for Best First Novel in 1976 It has been more than thirty-five years since Renata Adler’sSpeedboatcharged 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 cuttingly perceptive, darkly funny, and always fiercely intelligent as she breaks narrative convention to send…

Book details

List price: $17.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The
Publication date: 3/19/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 4.75" wide x 8.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English