Speedboat

Renata Adler

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

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