{"product_id":"speedboat-paperback","title":"Speedboat - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRenata Adler\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eGuy Trebay\u003c\/b\u003e (Afterword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Hemingway Foundation\/PEN Award, this is one of the defining books of the 1970s, an experimental novel about a young journalist trying to navigate life in America. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen \u003ci\u003eSpeedboat\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA touchstone over the years for writers as different as David Foster Wallace and Elizabeth Hardwick, \u003ci\u003eSpeedboat \u003c\/i\u003ereturns to enthrall a new generation of readers.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eRenata Adler was born in Milan and raised in Connecticut. She received a B.A. from Bryn Mawr, an M.A. from Harvard, a D.d'E.S. from the Sorbonne, a J.D. from Yale Law School, and an LL.D. (honorary) from Georgetown. Adler became a staff writer at \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e in 1963 and, except for a year as the chief film critic of \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, remained at \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e for the next four decades. Her books include \u003ci\u003eA Year in the Dark\u003c\/i\u003e (1969);\u003ci\u003e Toward a Radical Middle\u003c\/i\u003e (1970); \u003ci\u003eReckless Disregard: Westmoreland v. CBS et al., Sharon v. Time\u003c\/i\u003e (1986); \u003ci\u003eCanaries in the Mineshaft \u003c\/i\u003e(2001); \u003ci\u003eGone: The Last Days of\u003c\/i\u003e The New Yorker (1999); \u003ci\u003eIrreparable Harm: The U.S. Supreme Court and The Decision That Made George W. Bush President\u003c\/i\u003e (2004); and the novels \u003ci\u003eSpeedboat \u003c\/i\u003e(1976; winner of the Ernest Hemingway Award for Best First Novel) and \u003ci\u003ePitch Dark\u003c\/i\u003e (1983). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGuy Trebay reports on culture for \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e. He was previously a columnist for \u003ci\u003eThe Village Voice\u003c\/i\u003e and has written for \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCondé Nast Traveler\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTravel and Leisure\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHarper's\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEsquire\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGrand Street\u003c\/i\u003e, and other major publications. His work, twice honored with the Meyer Berger Award, presented by the Columbia University School of Journalism, has received numerous other awards, been widely anthologized, and was collected in \u003ci\u003eIn The Place to Be: Guy\u003cbr\u003eTrebay's New York\u003c\/i\u003e.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8 x 5.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 19, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47247095103737,"sku":"9781590176139","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/U0lMNTdVekM0TDB1UlIvMEJSTElGUT09.webp?v=1768620897","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/speedboat-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}