The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. A Novel

by Waldman, Adelle

• ISBN13: 9780805097450
• ISBN10: 0805097457
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2013-07-16
• Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.

Summary

Bold, touching and funnya debut novel by a brilliant young woman about the coming-of-age of a brilliant young literary man "He was not the kind of guy who disappeared after sleeping with a womanand certainly not after the condom broke. On the contrary: Nathaniel Piven was a product of a post-feminist, 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." Nate Piven is a rising star in Brooklyn's literary scene. After several lean, striving years and an early life as a nerd, he has his pick of both magazine assignments and women: Juliet, the Journal reporter; Elisa, Nate's gorgeous former live-in girlfriend, now friend; Hannah, "almost universally regarded as nice and smart, or smart and nice," and Greera good writer and one willing to "trade on her sexuality and call it feminism," Greer has also recently received a huge, envy-attracting book advance. In this 21st-century literary world, where wit and conversation are not at all dead, what is Nate thinking? Novelist Waldman plunges into the psyche of this sensitive, modern intellectual, a man who thinks of himself as beyond superficial judgment, yet constantly struggles with his own status anxiety and bouts of misogyny-- and Waldman reveals with tough-minded intelligence and wry good humor the view of the new world from Nate's Brooklyn window, and the view of women from his mind.

Author Biography

Adelle Waldman is a graduate of Brown University and Columbia University's journalism school. She worked as a reporter at the New Haven Register and the Cleveland Plain Dealer, and wrote a column for the Wall Street Journal's website. Her articles also have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The New Republic, Slate, The Wall Street Journal, and other national publications. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.