Speedboat
Renata Adler
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.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- New York Review of Books
- Year
- 2013
- ISBN-13
- 9781590176337
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topics
- Urban life in AmericaJournalismIdentity and observation
Awards
- National Book Critics Circle Award for FictionShortlistedMajor(1976)
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