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Speedboat

Renata Adler

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#3152 of 8,085 books · #1531 in Fiction

Shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction (1976).

Speedboat won the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. This is an experimental novel about a young journalist trying to navigate life in America. Jen Fain is 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.

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Publisher
New York Review of Books
ISBN-13
9781590176337
Genre
Fiction
Topics
Urban life in AmericaJournalismIdentity and observation

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