Speedboat: With an introduction by Hilton Als
Boldly capturing the spirit of the times, Speedboat was first published in the late-1970s to rapturous and astonished applause. As our narrator Jen Fain, a journalist, tells the story of her world and its characters, so a wry portrait of urban America emerges.
Synopsis
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
Publisher information
- Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
- ISBN: 9781474615860
- Number of pages: 192
- Dimensions: 196 x 130 x 18 mm
- Weight: 174g
- Languages: English
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