| #35034 in Books | NYRB Classics | 2013-03-19 | 2013-03-19 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 7.96 x.54 x4.96l,.47 | File type: PDF | 192 pages | ||7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.| A good non- novel|By JAK|SPEEDBOAT is a very good book.It's usually classified as a novel.I'd question that categorization.The book has no plot and only in a superficial sense does it have characters.It's a collage of literary fragments, brilliantly organized but not following any discernible pattern or progression.All the fragments ostensibly come from or concern the narrator|From Bookforum|Adler's novels concede the necessity of making fiction quicker, more terse, descriptively less elaborate than the traditional thing called a novel, not so much in deference to shrunken attention spans, but as the most plausible way of rendering th
Winner of the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award.
When Speedboat burst on the scene in the late ’70s it was like nothing readers had encountered before. It 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. Above all, there was its voice, ambivalent, curious, wry, the voice of Jen Fain, a journalist negotiating the fraught landscape of contemporary urban America. Pa...
You easily download any file type for your device.Speedboat (NYRB Classics) | Renata Adler. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.
