A Map of Tulsa A Novel

by Lytal, Benjamin

• ISBN13: 9780142422595
• ISBN10: 0142422592
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2013-03-26
• Publisher: Penguin Books

Summary

A stunning debut novel of first love set against the art scene of late-90s Tulsa by a former New Yorkereditorial staffer The first days of summer: Jim Praley is home from college, ready to unlock Tulsa's secrets. He drives the highways. He forces himself to get out of his car and walk into a bar. He's invited to a party. And there he meets Adrienne Booker; Adrienne rules Tulsa, in her way. A high-school dropout with a penthouse apartment, she takes a curious interest in Jim. Through her eyes, he will rediscover his hometown: its wasted sprawl, the beauty of its late nights, and, at the city's center, the unsleeping light of its skyscrapers. In the tradition of Michael Chabon's The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, A Map of Tulsais elegiac, graceful, and as much a story about young love as it is a love letter to a classic American city.

Author Biography

Benjamin Lytal has written for the Wall Street Journal, the London Review of Books, the Los Angeles Times, Bookforum, the Believer, McSweeney’s, Fence, and the Nation. He has worked at the New Yorker, taught at the Pratt Institute, and wrote a column on new fiction for the New York Sun. Originally from Tulsa, Oklahoma, Lytal graduated from Harvard and lives in Chicago, Illinois.