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Conor O'Toole has never in his life been in a place as casually glamorous as this New England community, a gated world its residents fondly call "The Neck." He's taken a summer job here as a tennis instructor, living in a guest cottage in exchange for lessons and a chance to study for the bar exam, far away from the stress of the tiny Yonkers apartment he usually shares with his diabetic mother. But, grateful as he is for the blissful beauty o...

A razor-sharp novel that skewers the life of the uber-rich in the vein of The White Lotus, with shades of The Talented Mr Ripley and The Graduate'A gripping, provocative, and delightfully shocking novel¿ Nathan Hill

A razor-sharp novel that skewers the life of the uber-rich in the vein of The White Lotus, with shades of The Talented Mr Ripley and The Graduate'A gripping, provocative, and delightfully shocking novel¿ Nathan Hill

Ein junger angehender Anwalt ergattert einen Sommerjob in einem Tennisclub am Meer - wo er in ein Netz aus kompromittiertem Ehrgeiz, Begehren und Sex gerät, aus dem es am Ende nur noch einen Ausweg gibt. Conor O'Toole muss den Sommer über für die Anwaltsprüfung lernen. Er ist knapp bei Kasse, hat einen Kredit abzuzahlen und unterstützt seine kranke, arbeitslose Mutter.Ein Glück also, dass er einen Job als Tennislehrer in Cutters Neck, Massachu...

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From acclaimed, Whiting Award-winning author Teddy Wayne, the hilarious, incisive, yet deeply poignant story of a liberal armchair-revolutionary desperate to save America from itself.Paul is a recently demoted adjunct instructor of freshman comp, a divorced but doting Brooklyn father, and a self-desc­ribed "curmudgeonly crank" cataloging his resentment of the priorities of modern life in a book called The Luddite Manifesto. Outraged by the aut...

A New York Times Editors ChoiceLonglisted for the 2020 Simpson / Joyce Carol Oates Literary PrizeOne of Vogue.com's "Best Books of 2020 So Far"One of Elle's "Best Books of 2020 So Far"Named A Most-Anticipated Book by The New York Times, Vogue, The Boston Globe, Salon, The Millions, Inside Hook, and Vol. 1 BrooklynIn 1996, the unnamed narrator of Teddy Wayne's Apartment is attending the MFA writing program at Columbia on his father's dime and l...

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A New York Times Editors ChoiceLonglisted for the 2020 Simpson / Joyce Carol Oates Literary PrizeOne of Vogue.com's "Best Books of 2020 So Far"One of Elle's "Best Books of 2020 So Far"Named A Most-Anticipated Book by The New York Times, Vogue, The Boston Globe, Salon, The Millions, Inside Hook, and Vol. 1 BrooklynIn 1996, the unnamed narrator of Teddy Wayne's Apartment is attending the MFA writing program at Columbia on his father's dime and l...

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One of the most critically acclaimed books of the year, Whiting Award-winner Teddy Wayne's second novel is "more than a scabrous sendup of American celebrity culture, it's also a poignant portrait of one young artist's coming of age" (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times)—and an enduring yet timely portrait of the American dream gone awry.In his rave on the cover of The New York Times Book Review, Jess Walter praised Wayne's writing for its "f...

For fans of "A Visit from the Goon Squad" and Joyce Carol Oates' "Blonde, " a scathing and un-put-downable new novel about America's monstrous obsession with fame, from the winner of a 2011 Whiting Writers' Award.

Powerful." —Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air Named a best book of the year by NPR, Kirkus Reviews, and BookPage • One of the most anticipated novels of the fall from New York magazine, Glamour, Lit Hub, Boston magazine, The Millions, and BookPageDavid Federman has never felt appreciated. An academically gifted yet painfully forgettable member of his New Jersey high school class, the withdrawn, mild-mannered freshman arrives at Harvard fully e...

In a singular and captivating voice, Wayne marks his literary debut with the chronicle of one young Middle Eastern man's attempt to live the American Dream in New York city without sacrificing his ideals.

Les presentamos a Karim Issar: héroe delicado, genio de las matemáticas e incompetente social. Acaba de llegar de Qatar, todo lo que sabe lo ha aprendido en los libros, y está a punto de descubrir el sexo, las drogas y la música indie.En plena crisis del 99 en Wall Street, nuestro héroe pone en marcha Kapitoil, un programa informático capaz de predecir, mediante fórmulas y algoritmos, el mercado del petróleo. Ello a partir de las noticias sobr...

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Lonerÿturns the traditional campus novel on its head as it explores gender politics and class.

Lonerÿturns the traditional campus novel on its head as it explores gender politics and class.