Adelle Waldman Livres

"Writer Nate Piven's star is rising. After several lean and striving years, he has his pick of both magazine assignments and women: Juliet, the hotshot business reporter; Elisa, his gorgeous ex-girlfriend, now friend; and Hannah, "almost universally regarded as nice and smart, or smart and nice," who holds her own in conversation with his friends. When one relationship grows more serious, Nate is forced to consider what it is he really wants. In Nate's 21st-century literary world, wit and conversation are not at all dead. Is romance? Novelist Adelle Waldman plunges into the psyche of a flawed, sometimes infuriating modern man--one who thinks of himself as beyond superficial judgment, yet constantly struggles with his own status anxiety, who is drawn to women, yet has a habit of letting them down in ways that may just make him an emblem of our times. With tough-minded intelligence and wry good humor The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. is an absorbing tale of one young man's search for happiness--and an inside look at how he really thinks about women, sex and love"--Publisher

Nate Piven is a rising star in Brooklyn's literary scene. After several lean and striving years, he has his pick of both magazine assignments and women: Juliet, the hotshot business reporter; Elisa, his gorgeous ex-girlfriend, now friend; and Hannah, "almost universally regarded as nice and smart, or smart and nice, " who is lively fun and holds her own in conversation with his friends

'Help Wanted is like a great nineteenth-century novel about now, at once an effervescent workplace comedy and an exploration of the psychic toll exacted by the labour market' Elif Batuman, author of The IdiotAt a superstore in a small town in upstate New York, the members of Team Movement clock in every day at 3.55 am. Under the red-eyed scrutiny of their self-absorbed and barely competent boss, they empty delivery trucks of mountains of merchandise, stock the shelves and stagger home (or to another poorly paid day job) before the customers arrive. When a chance for a promotion presents itself, the diverse members of Movement - among them a comedy-obsessed oddball who acts half his age, a young woman clinging to her "cool kid" status from high school, and a college football hopeful trying to find a new path - band together and set a just-so-crazy-it-might-work plot in motion. Help Wanted is a darkly comic workplace drama that explores the aches and uses of solidarity, and most of all it is a deeply humane portrait of people trying, against increasingly long odds, to make a living.

Prvotina mladé autorky o dozrávání brilantního, i když nesnesitelného mladého muže. Nathaniel Piven je vycházející hvězdou brooklynské literární scény. Jeho svět je plný duchaplných večírků a inteligentní konverzace, která nepostrádá vtip a lehkost. Nathanielovi brzy vyjde první kniha a v jeho životě se objeví krásná Hannah. Po několika krušných letech se mu tak začíná dařit nejen v psaní, ale i u žen. Ve vztazích sice trošku tápe, ale když se jedna z jeho přelétavých známostí začne měnit v něco vážnějšího, je nucen přemýšlet o tom, co od života doopravdy chce.