{"product_id":"the-love-affairs-of-nathaniel-p-9780099558996","title":"The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eNathaniel Piven is a rising star in Brooklyn''s literary scene. After several lean, striving years and an early life as a class-A nerd, he now (to his surprise) has a lucrative book deal, his pick of plum magazine assignments, and the attentions of many desirable women: Juliet, the hotshot business journalist; Elisa, Nate''s gorgeous ex-girlfriend, now friend; Hannah, lively and fun and ''almost universally regarded as nice and smart, or smart and nice''.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this twenty-first-century literary enclave, wit and conversation are not at all dead. But is romance? In \u003ci\u003eThe Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.\u003c\/i\u003e Adelle Waldman plunges into the psyche of a sensitive, flawed, modern man  to reveal the view of the new world from his garret window, and the view of women from his overactive mind.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDeeply clever...a writer to watch. -- Jonathan Franzen\u003cbr\u003eWith this novel, Waldman has done the heretofore impossible: get at the core of the modern female state through the roiling inner monologue of a man who loves to hate women. Her protagonist is well-meaning, and that may be the most sobering part. \u003cb\u003eNate is almost too real. Mark my words: this book will inspire laughter, chills of recognition and flights into lesbianism.\u003c\/b\u003e -- Lena Dunham\u003cbr\u003eAdelle Waldman’s \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.\u003c\/i\u003e is that most unusual and wondrous of things: a novel that wants to educate our hearts\u003c\/b\u003e. Beneath her highly graceful and entertaining prose, Waldman has a moral project in mind, she seeks to extend our sympathies and (with great charm) shame us into becoming better versions of ourselves. Her novel is \u003cb\u003econstantly witty and profound\u003c\/b\u003e. It is also a reminder that novels can be far more than pleasant diversions, they can be highly sophisticated tools that help us to grow up. -- Alain de Botton\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eI can't remember the last novel this good about being young and smart and looking for love in the big city\u003c\/b\u003e. It’s as if one of the top tier nineteenth-century novelists zeroed in their social x-ray eyes onto present-day Brooklyn. I bet untold readers will be squirming with uncomfortable recognition;  many more will be thanking Adelle Waldman for this \u003cb\u003ehilarious, big-hearted, ruthlessly intelligent, and ridiculously well-written novel\u003c\/b\u003e. -- Charles Bock (author of the bestselling Beautiful Children)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDeliciously funny\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003esharply observed\u003c\/b\u003e,\u003cb\u003e elegantly told, \u003ci\u003eThe Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.\u003c\/i\u003e is\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003ethe best debut novel I’ve encountered in years\u003c\/b\u003e, the best novel about New York, and the best novel about contemporary manhood and the crazy state of gender roles and ‘contemporary’ life. With \u003cb\u003ea pitch-perfect balance of satire and sympathy\u003c\/b\u003e, reminiscent of Mary McCarthy’s \u003ci\u003eThe Group\u003c\/i\u003e, Joshua Ferris’ \u003ci\u003eThen We Came to the End\u003c\/i\u003e, and Jay McInerney’s \u003ci\u003eBrightness Falls\u003c\/i\u003e, Adelle Waldman’s voice is nevertheless entirely – and unabashedly – her own. -- Joanna Smith Rakoff (author of A Fortunate Age)","brand":"Cornerstone","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51017527951703,"sku":"9780099558996","price":14.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780099558996.jpg?v=1750773840","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-love-affairs-of-nathaniel-p-9780099558996","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}