Name: Speedboat

Author: Renata Adler
Year: 1976
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Classic, Award winners, Short Stories

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9780060971434
9781590176139
0060971436
1590176138
Winner of the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. 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.
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