![]() Joanna Smith Rakoff (author of A Fortunate Age)īracing and astute. With a pitch-perfect balance of satire and sympathy, reminiscent of Mary McCarthy’s The Group, Joshua Ferris’ Then We Came to the End, and Jay McInerney’s Brightness Falls, Adelle Waldman’s voice is nevertheless entirely – and unabashedly – her own. is the best debut novel I’ve encountered in years, the best novel about New York, and the best novel about contemporary manhood and the crazy state of gender roles and ‘contemporary’ life. ![]() Charles Bock (author of the bestselling Beautiful Children)ĭeliciously funny, sharply observed, elegantly told, The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. I bet untold readers will be squirming with uncomfortable recognition many more will be thanking Adelle Waldman for this hilarious, big-hearted, ruthlessly intelligent, and ridiculously well-written novel. ![]() ![]() It’s as if one of the top tier nineteenth-century novelists zeroed in their social x-ray eyes onto present-day Brooklyn. I can't remember the last novel this good about being young and smart and looking for love in the big city. ![]()
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