1990, ISBN: 9780805097450

Bold, touching and funny--a 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… Mehr…

Bold, touching and funny--a 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 woman--and 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 Greer--a 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. Media >, [PU: Henry Holt and Company also Metropolitan Books]<