Speedboat
By: Renata Adler ; afterword by Guy Trebay
Series: New York Review Books classics; New York Review Books classics
Publisher: New York Review Books
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 177
ISBN-13: 9781590176139
Subjects: Women; Fiction
Description: "It has been more than thirty-five years since Renata Adler's Speedboat, Winner of the Ernest Hemingway Award for Best First Novel, charged through the literary establishment, blasting genre walls and pointing the way for a newly liberated way of writing. This unclassifiable work is simultaneously novel, memoir, commonplace book, confession, and critique. It is the story of every man and woman cursed with too much consciousness and too little comprehension, and it is the story of Jen Fein, a journalist negotiating the fraught landscape of contemporary urban America. Her voice is searching, cuttingly perceptive, and darkly funny as she breaks narrative convention to send dispatches back from the world as she finds it"--