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THE LOVE AFFAIRS OF NATHANIEL P.
By: Adelle Waldman
Henry Holt
July 2013
On Sale: July 16, 2013
256 pages
ISBN: 0805097457
EAN: 9780805097450
Kindle: B00ANI9FDW
Hardcover / e-Book
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Bold, touching, and funnyβa debut novel by a brilliant young woman about the coming-of-age of a brilliant young literary man βHe was not the kind of guy who disappeared after sleeping with a womanβand certainly not after the condom broke. On the contrary: Nathaniel Piven was a product of a postfeminist 1980s childhood and politically correct, 1990s college education. He had learned all about male privilege. Moreover, he was in possession of a functional and frankly rather clamorous conscience.β β From The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. Nate Piven is a rising star in Brooklynβs literary scene. 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, βalmost universally regarded as nice and smart, or smart and nice,β who is lively fun and holds her own in conversation with his friends. In this 21st-century literary world, wit and conversation are not at all dead. Is romance? Novelist Adelle Waldman plunges into the psyche of a modern manβwho thinks of himself as beyond superficial judgment, yet constantly struggles with his own status anxiety, who is drawn to women, yet has a habit of letting them down. With tough-minded intelligence and wry good humor The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. is an absorbing tale of one young manβs search for happinessβand an inside look at how he really thinks about women, sex and love.
 Media BuzzFresh Air - NPR - August 6, 2013
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