Isbn: 9780385351294 - playworld: a novel (35 Ergebnisse)

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. "Starting off 2025 with a novel this terrific gives me hope for the whole year." -Ron Charles, The Washington Post "A gorgeous cat's cradle of a book . . . The swirling vapors of Holden Caulfield are present in Playworld, for sure, but also Lolita, Willy Loman, Garp." -Alexandra Jacobs, The New York Times Book Review "Extraordinary . . . A beguiling ode to a lost era . . . Line for line the book is a revelation." -Leigh Haber, Los Angeles Times A MULANEY READS BOOK CLUB PICK . THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE . A big and big-hearted novel-one enthralling, transformative year in the life of a child actor coming of age in a bygone Manhattan, from the critically acclaimed author of Mr. Peanut "In the fall of 1980, when I was fourteen, a friend of my parents named Naomi Shah fell in love with me. She was thirty-six, a mother of two, and married to a wealthy man. Like so many things that happened to me that year, it didn't seem strange at the time." Griffin Hurt is in over his head. Between his role as Peter Proton on the hit TV show The Nuclear Family and the pressure of high school at New York's elite Boyd Prep-along with the increasingly compromising demands of his wrestling coach-he's teetering on the edge of collapse. Then comes Naomi Shah, twenty-two years Griffin's senior. Unwilling to lay his burdens on his shrink-whom he shares with his father, mother, and younger brother, Oren-Griffin soon finds himself in the back of Naomi's Mercedes sedan, again and again, confessing all to the one person who might do him the most harm. Less a bildungsroman than a story of miseducation, Playworld is a novel of epic proportions, bursting with laughter and heartache. Adam Ross immerses us in the life of Griffin and his loving (yet disintegrating) family while seeming to evoke the entirety of Manhattan and the ethos of an era-with Jimmy Carter on his way out and a B-list celebrity named Ronald Reagan on his way in. Surrounded by adults who embody the age's excesses-and who seem to care little about what their children are up to-Griffin is left to himself to find the line between youth and maturity, dependence and love, acting and truly grappling with life. …

Hardback. Zustand: Good. "Starting off 2025 with a novel this terrific gives me hope for the whole year." -Ron Charles, The Washington Post "A gorgeous cat's cradle of a book . . . The swirling vapors of Holden Caulfield are present in Playworld, for sure, but also Lolita, Willy Loman, Garp." -Alexandra Jacobs, The New York Times Book Review "Extraordinary . . . A beguiling ode to a lost era . . . Line for line the book is a revelation." -Leigh Haber, Los Angeles Times A MULANEY READS BOOK CLUB PICK . THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE . A big and big-hearted novel-one enthralling, transformative year in the life of a child actor coming of age in a bygone Manhattan, from the critically acclaimed author of Mr. Peanut "In the fall of 1980, when I was fourteen, a friend of my parents named Naomi Shah fell in love with me. She was thirty-six, a mother of two, and married to a wealthy man. Like so many things that happened to me that year, it didn't seem strange at the time." Griffin Hurt is in over his head. Between his role as Peter Proton on the hit TV show The Nuclear Family and the pressure of high school at New York's elite Boyd Prep-along with the increasingly compromising demands of his wrestling coach-he's teetering on the edge of collapse. Then comes Naomi Shah, twenty-two years Griffin's senior. Unwilling to lay his burdens on his shrink-whom he shares with his father, mother, and younger brother, Oren-Griffin soon finds himself in the back of Naomi's Mercedes sedan, again and again, confessing all to the one person who might do him the most harm. Less a bildungsroman than a story of miseducation, Playworld is a novel of epic proportions, bursting with laughter and heartache. Adam Ross immerses us in the life of Griffin and his loving (yet disintegrating) family while seeming to evoke the entirety of Manhattan and the ethos of an era-with Jimmy Carter on his way out and a B-list celebrity named Ronald Reagan on his way in. Surrounded by adults who embody the age's excesses-and who seem to care little about what their children are up to-Griffin is left to himself to find the line between youth and maturity, dependence and love, acting and truly grappling with life. …

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Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 528 pages. 9.12x6.12x1.31 inches. In Stock.

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Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 528 pages. 9.12x6.12x1.31 inches. In Stock.

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD PRIZE A big and big-hearted novelone enthralling, transformative year in the life of a child actor coming of age in a bygone Manhattan, from the critically acclaimed author of Mr. PeanutNAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORKER, NEW YORK TIMES, WASHINGTON POST, TOWN & COUNTRY, AND PEOPLE GOTHAM BOOK PRIZE FINALIST MULANEY READS BOOK CLUB PICK'A gorgeous cat's cradle of a book . . . The swirling vapors of Holden Caulfield are present in Playworld, for sure, but also Lolita, Willy Loman, Garp.' Alexandra Jacobs, The New York Times Book Review'Extraordinary . . . A beguiling ode to a lost era . . . Line for line the book is a revelation.' Leigh Haber, Los Angeles Times"In the fall of 1980, when I was fourteen, a friend of my parents named Naomi Shah fell in love with me. She was thirty-six, a mother of two, and married to a wealthy man. Like so many things that happened to me that year, it didn't seem strange at the time."Griffin Hurt is in over his head. Between his role as Peter Proton on the hit TV show The Nuclear Family and the pressure of high school at New York's elite Boyd Prepalong with the increasingly compromising demands of his wrestling coachhe's teetering on the edge of collapse. Then comes Naomi Shah, twenty-two years Griffin's senior. Unwilling to lay his burdens on his shrinkwhom he shares with his father, mother, and younger brotherGriffin soon finds himself in the back of Naomi's Mercedes sedan, again and again, confessing all to the one person who might do him the most harm. Less a bildungsroman than a story of miseducation, Playworld is a novel of epic proportions, bursting with laughter and heartache. Adam Ross immerses us in the life of Griffin and his loving (yet disintegrating) family while seeming to evoke the entirety of Manhattan and the ethos of an erawith Jimmy Carter on his way out and a B-list celebrity named Ronald Reagan on his way in. Surrounded by adults who embody the age's excessesand who seem to care little about what their children are up toGriffin is left to himself to find the line between youth and maturity, dependence and love, acting and truly grappling with life.…

Hardcover. Zustand: New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: New. 1st Edition. New York, Knopf, 2025. First edition. First printing. Hardbound. Very Fine in a very fine jacket. A tight clean unread copy. Slight bump to upper corners. Publisher's price intact on front jacket flap ($29.00). SIGNED AND DATED BY AUTHOR in month of publication on title page, January 2025, with place of signing noted (name, place, date only; no inscriptions). Comes with archival-quality mylar jacket protector. Smoke-free. A novel. Signed by Author(s).…

Zustand: New. ADAM ROSS is the author of Mr. Peanut, which was selected as one of the best books of the year by The New York Times, The New Yorker, and The Economist. He has been a fellow in fiction at the American Academy in Berlin and a Hodder Fell.