This novel gives voice to the experiences and feelings of discontinuity in modern life through a series of vignettes which follow the life and travels of Jen Fain, a beautiful and intelligent journalist

Speedboat

ADLER, Renata

Literature & Fiction

Harpercollins

Journeying to Ireland to escape her affair with a married man and discover new meaning for her life, Kate Ennis finds her trip takes on a sinister and absurd aspect when she becomes, or thinks she becomes, a fugitive

Pitch Dark

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Alfred.A. Knopf

Renata Adler is one of the most original, incisive and witty writers active in American letters today. Whether it be fiction, reportage or essay, her work is marked by a truly extraordinary intellect and a luminous prose that is penetrating, precise, deft and, often, very funny. In this new collection-which includes the early and definitive profile of the National Guard; the widely discussed and still controversial review of Pauline Kael; and the first major piece about foreign contributions to American political campaigns-Adler's wide-ranging reflections become focused on two increasingly fused interests: the politics which govern our public world and the media, which now actively distort and misrepresent information about that world. For anyone seriously interested in politics and the media Canaries in the Mineshaft is yet another proof that Renata Adler is one of the most delightful and brilliant writers of our day.

Canaries in the Mineshaft: Essays on Politics and Media

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

St.Martin's Press

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

St. Martin's: Griffin

Pitch Dark (Abacus Books)

Literary

ABACUS +

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. Party guests, taxi drivers, brownstone dwellers, professors, journalists, presidents, and debutantes fill these dispatches from the world as Jen finds it. A touchstone over the years for writers as different as David Foster Wallace and Elizabeth Hardwick,

Random House]

Journeying to Ireland to escape her affair with a married man and discover new meaning for her life, Kate Ennis finds her trip takes on a sinister and absurd aspect when she becomes, or thinks she becomes, a fugitive

A trained lawyer who served with the House Judiciary Committee during the Watergate investigation and a respected critic, Adler analyzes the libel cases of Sharon vs. "Time" and Westmoreland vs. CBS

Reckless Disregard

KNOPF

"It has been more than thirty-five years since Renata Adler's Speedboat, Winner of the Ernest Hemingway Award for Best First Novel, charged through the literary establishment, blasting genre walls and pointing the way for a newly liberated way of writing. This unclassifiable work is simultaneously novel, memoir, commonplace book, confession, and critique. It is the story of every man and woman cursed with too much consciousness and too little comprehension, and it is the story of Jen Fein, a journalist negotiating the fraught landscape of contemporary urban America. Her voice is searching, cuttingly perceptive, and darkly funny as she breaks narrative convention to send dispatches back from the world as she finds it"--

Vintage

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Speedboat

Pitch Dark

Canaries in the Mineshaft: Essays on Politics and Media

Canaries in the Mineshaft: Essays on Politics and Media

Pitch Dark (Abacus Books)

Speedboat

Pitch Dark

Reckless Disregard

Speedboat

Reckless Disregard