{"product_id":"9781399627528","title":"Speedboat : With an introduction by Hilton Als","description":"Author(s): Adler, Renata, \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 26\/03\/2026,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 192 pages,\u003cbr\u003e Series: W\u0026amp;N Essentials, \u003cbr\u003eImprint: Weidenfeld \u0026amp; Nicolson,\u003cbr\u003e Published By: Orion Publishing Co,\u003cbr\u003e Book Classification: New York,\u003cbr\u003e Dimensions: 197 x 131 x 16\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\/EAN\/SKU: 9781399627528\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'I can't think of a living stylist I admire more than Renata Adler' ELIF BATUMAN'Luminously exact' NEW YORK TIMES'It was as though the novel had outstretched arms and I fell in' PARIS REVIEWWhen Speedboat burst on the scene in the late '70s it was like nothing readers had encountered before.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt 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. A touchstone over the years for writers as different as David Foster Wallace and Elizabeth Hardwick, Speedboat returns to enthral a new generation of readers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA W\u0026amp;N Essential with an introduction by Hilton Als\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Adler, Renata","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56548455481730,"sku":"9781399627528","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0568\/2180\/9347\/files\/9781399627528.jpg?v=1775909026","url":"https:\/\/mountfloridabooks.com\/products\/9781399627528","provider":"Mount Florida Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}