1970
A Year in the Dark: Journal of a Film Critic
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After the tall timber
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Books to read before you die
Canaries in the Mineshaft
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forgotten classics
helen garner
iconic books
Irreparable Harm
Joan Didion
journalism
Letter from the Palmer House
Mary McCarthy
Modern Classics
new york
Pitch Dark
Reckless Disregard
Renata Adler
Reuel Wilson
Speedboat
The new Yorker
the spare room
this house of grief
Toward a Radical Middle
W&N Essentials
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- ISBN 9781474615860
- Weight: 180g
- Dimensions: 130 x 196mm
- Publication Date: 22 Jul 2021
- Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Jen Fain is a journalist negotiating the fraught landscape of 1970s New York. Party guests, taxi drivers, brownstone dwellers, professors, journalists, presidents, and debutantes fill these dispatches from the world as she finds it.
Simultaneously novel, memoir, commonplace book, confession, and critique - Speedboat is funny, disturbing, cutting, brilliant unlike anything that had come before. Since it burst onto the scene in the 1970s, it has enthralled generations of readers and been a touchstone for writers including David Foster Wallace, Claudia Rankine and Jenny Offill.
With an introduction by Hilton Als
RENATA 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 the New Yorker in 1963 and, except for a year as the chief film critic of the New York Times, remained at the New Yorker for the next four decades. She has written six works of non-fiction, and the novels SPEEDBOAT (1976; winner of the Ernest Hemingway Award for Best First Novel) and PITCH DARK (1983).
