{"product_id":"9781399627528","title":"Speedboat","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'I can't think of a living stylist I admire more than Renata Adler' ELIF BATUMAN\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Luminously exact' \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'It was as though the novel had outstretched arms and I fell in' \u003ci\u003ePARIS REVIEW\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen \u003ci\u003eSpeedboat\u003c\/i\u003e burst on the scene in the late '70s it was like nothing readers had encountered before.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAbove 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA touchstone over the years for writers as different as David Foster Wallace and Elizabeth Hardwick, \u003ci\u003eSpeedboat\u003c\/i\u003e returns to enthral a new generation of readers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA W\u0026amp;N Essential with an introduction by Hilton Als\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Weidenfeld \u0026#38; Nicolson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56930869903733,"sku":"9781399627528","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/goldenharebooks.com\/products\/9781399627528","provider":"Golden Hare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}