In Nate's 21st-century literary world, wit and conversation are not at all dead. When one relationship grows more serious, Nate is forced to consider what it is he really wants. After several lean and striving years, he has his pick of both magazine assignments and women: Juliet, the hotshot business reporter Elisa, his gorgeous ex-girlfriend, now friend and Hannah, almost universally regarded as nice and smart, or smart and nice, who holds her own in conversation with his friends. Maria Russo, The New York TimesĪdelle Waldman just may be this generation's Jane Austen - The Boston GlobeĪ debut novel by a brilliant young woman about the romantic life of a brilliant young man. Waldman has sorted and cross-categorized the inhabitants of Nate's world with a witty, often breathtaking precision. A New York Times Editors' Choice and a Washington Post Notable book.Īdelle Waldman's debut novel, The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P., scrutinizes Nate and the subculture that he thrives in with a patient, anthropological detachment. The national bestseller, named a best book of the year by The New Yorker, NPR, Slate, The Economist, The New Republic, Bookforum, Baltimore City Paper, The Daily Beast, National Journal, San Francisco Chronicle, Chicago Reader, Cosmopolitan, Elle, Buzzfeed and many others.
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