{"product_id":"9781474615860","title":"Speedboat","description":"Author: Renata Adler\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781474615860\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Orion\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 26 Oct 2021\u003cbr\u003ePages: 176 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJen Fain is a journalist negotiating the fraught landscape of 1970s New York. Party guests, taxi drivers, brownstone dwellers, professors, journalists, presidents, and debutantes fill these dispatches from the world as she finds it.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSimultaneously novel, memoir, commonplace book, confession, and critique - \u003ci\u003eSpeedboat \u003c\/i\u003eis funny, disturbing, cutting, brilliant unlike anything that had come before. Since it burst onto the scene in the 1970s, it has enthralled generations of readers and been a touchstone for writers including David Foster Wallace, Claudia Rankine and Jenny Offill.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eWith an introduction by Hilton Als\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46375456538782,"sku":"ADS-9781474615860","price":22.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781474615860.jpg?v=1767671090","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781474615860","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}