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Speedboat

With an introduction by Hilton Als

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Speedboat

By: Renata Adler, Hilton Als
Narrated by: Regina Reagan
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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 fans and been a touchstone for writers including David Foster Wallace, Claudia Rankine and Jenny Offill.

This audiobook includes language that some people may find offensive.

©1976 Renata Adler (P)2021 Orion Publishing Group
Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Literature & Fiction Satire Women's Fiction Comedy Funny
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