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Apartment de Teddy Wayne

Apartment

Autor Teddy Wayne
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en Limba Engleză Hardback – 27 mai 2020
One ofVogue's 22 Books to Read This Winter"Draftsmanlike precision...it leaves one feeling vaguely ill, in the best way possible. A near-anthropological study of male insecurity." -Kirkus Reviews(starred review)From the award-winning author ofLonerandThe Love Song of Jonny Valentine, a powerful novel about loneliness and friendship, gender and sexuality, and the political schisms that dominate our times.In 1996, the unnamed narrator of Teddy Wayne'sApartmentis attending the MFA writing program at Columbia on his father's dime and living in an illegal sublet of a rent-stabilized apartment. Feeling guilty about his good fortune, he offers his spare bedroom--rent-free--to Billy, a talented, charismatic classmate from the Midwest eking out a hand-to-mouth existence in Manhattan.The narrator's rapport with Billy develops into the friendship he's never had due to a lifetime of holding people at arm's length, hovering at the periphery, feeling "fundamentally defective." But their living arrangement, not to mention their radically different upbringings, breeds tensions neither man could predict. Interrogating the origins of our contemporary political divide and its ties to masculinity and class,Apartmentis a gutting portrait of one of New York's many lost, disconnected souls by a writer with an uncommon aptitude for embodying them."The rare page-turner that always maintains its dignity as a moving portrait of loneliness and longing." -Joshua Ferris, author ofThen We Came to the End
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781635574005
ISBN-10: 1635574005
Pagini: 208
Dimensiuni: 140 x 210 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Publishing
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Caracteristici

Well-connected author: Teddy is a well-known, well-connected and respected author. He is a frequent contributor to the New Yorker's Shouts and Murmurs column, the New York Times's Style Section, and to McSweeney's. Teddy's most recent book, Loner, is being adapted into a series for HBO, and the book he wrote before that, The Love Song of Jonny Valentine, is being adapted for a Broadway musical.

Notă biografică

Teddy Wayne is the author of Loner, The Love Song of Jonny Valentine, and Kapitoil. He is the winner of a Whiting Writers' Award and an NEA Creative Writing Fellowship as well as a finalist for the Young Lions Fiction Award, the PEN/Bingham Prize, and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. He is a regular contributor to the New Yorker, the New York Times, and McSweeney's.

Recenzii

Loneris a campus novel for our times.The novel's brilliance lies in the way Wayne toys with the reader's sympathies while allowing his narrator to pursue his dreadful end.Loneris one prickly piece of work, but the genius is hard to miss.
Apartment is a piercing investigation of male intimacy, privilege, and literary ambition that's as witty and insightful as it is heartrending. I couldn't look away.
Apartment is full of keenly observed, stinging insights that compound in intensity long after the initial read.
The rare page-turner that always maintains its dignity as a moving portrait of loneliness and longing.
What a remarkable rarity--a guy-meets-guy novel about male friendship and intimacy. Apartment is a propulsive and powerfully focused exploration of masculine insecurity, anxiety, and ambivalence.
Wayne's latest foray into the dark minds of lonely young men follows the rise and fall of a friendship between two aspiring fiction writers on opposite sides of a vast cultural divide. . . . [He] captures the nuances of this dynamic-a musky cocktail of intimacy and rage and unspoken mutual resentment-with draftsmanlike precision, and when the breaking point comes, as, of course, it does, it leaves one feeling vaguely ill, in the best way possible. A near-anthropological study of male insecurity.
Subtle, fascinating. . . Wayne excels at creating a narrator both observant of his surroundings and deluded about his own feelings . . . A careful meditation on class and power.
Wayne emphasizes the gap between social isolation and an intense internal life, and uses the contrast to explore contemporary cultural anxieties in tenderly close focus.
Teddy Wayne has an uncanny ability to teleport to another location and inhabit the people who live there...Dark and compulsively readable... Wayne skillfully shows us every disturbing and obsessive moment...a tightly written, tensely memorable short novel.
At a moment when so many young writers want to join the ranks of the angels, Wayne's unfashionable wit, bitterness, and tight focus are a gift.
More than a scabrous sendup of American celebrity culture; it's also a poignant portrait of one young artist's coming of age.
Kapitoil is one of those uncommon novels that really is novel.
Loner moves ahead to its climax (and a superbly executed plot twist) with the sickening momentum of a horror movie.It stands in stark contrast to Mr. Wayne's previous novel, The Love Song of Jonny Valentine (2013), a funny, sympathetic portrait of a teenybopper pop star. The range shown in these two books, which move from the ridiculous to the chilling, is evidence of a rising talent.
A powerful and even a somewhat touching suspense story about a first-year student who finds himself outclassed, in ways neither he, nor the reader, could possibly anticipate.
Wayne has created a uniquely terrifying and compelling protagonist for such a funny book... the best second-person novel I've read since Sam Lipsyte's Homeland... a great, lethal little book.
Like all transgressive works of fiction, Loner is bound to be controversial. In some ways, the novel resembles a hyper-timely update to the psychological portrait of Humbert Humbert in Lolita. Similarly, Loner also asks the reader for a certain kind of bravery to stomach-and it rewards such risks.
Wildly inventive and disturbing.
Harrowing... complex [and] necessary.

Descriere

One of Vogue's 22 Books to Read This Winter "Draftsmanlike precision...it leaves one feeling vaguely ill, in the best way possible. A near-anthropological study of male insecurity." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) From the award-winning author of Loner and The Love Song of Jonny Valentine, a powerful novel about loneliness and friendship, gender and sexuality, and the political schisms that dominate our times.In 1996, the unnamed narrator of Teddy Wayne's Apartment is attending the MFA writing program at Columbia on his father's dime and living in an illegal sublet of a rent-stabilized apartment. Feeling guilty about his good fortune, he offers his spare bedroom--rent-free--to Billy, a talented, charismatic classmate from the Midwest eking out a hand-to-mouth existence in Manhattan.The narrator's rapport with Billy develops into the friendship he's never had due to a lifetime of holding people at arm's length, hovering at the periphery, feeling "fundamentally defective." But their living arrangement, not to mention their radically different upbringings, breeds tensions neither man could predict. Interrogating the origins of our contemporary political divide and its ties to masculinity and class, Apartment is a gutting portrait of one of New York's many lost, disconnected souls by a writer with an uncommon aptitude for embodying them."The rare page-turner that always maintains its dignity as a moving portrait of loneliness and longing." -Joshua Ferris, author of Then We Came to the End