Apartment Apartment

Apartment

    • 4.1 • 48 Ratings
    • $11.99

Publisher Description

A New York Times Editors Choice

Longlisted for the 2020 Simpson / Joyce Carol Oates Literary Prize

One of Vogue.com's "Best Books of 2020 So Far"

One of Elle's "Best Books of 2020 So Far"



Named A Most-Anticipated Book by The New York Times, Vogue, The Boston Globe, Salon,

The Millions, Inside Hook, and Vol. 1 Brooklyn



In 1996, the unnamed narrator of Teddy Wayne's Apartment is attending the MFA writing program at Columbia on his father's dime and living in an illegal sublet of a rent-stabilized apartment. Feeling guilty about his good fortune, he offers his spare bedroom--rent-free--to Billy, a talented, charismatic classmate from the Midwest eking out a hand-to-mouth existence in Manhattan.



The narrator's rapport with Billy develops into the friendship he's never had due to a lifetime of holding people at arm's length, hovering at the periphery, feeling "fundamentally defective." But their living arrangement, not to mention their radically different upbringings, breeds tensions neither man could predict. Interrogating the origins of our contemporary political divide and its ties to masculinity and class, Apartment is a gutting portrait of one of New York's many lost, disconnected souls by a writer with an uncommon aptitude for embodying them.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2020
February 25
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
208
Pages
PUBLISHER
Bloomsbury Publishing
SELLER
Bookwire Gesellschaft zum Vertrieb digitaler Medien mbH
SIZE
3
MB

Customer Reviews

tsmith12 ,

Read in one sitting

What a fantastic book. I’d downloaded a sample a couple of weeks ago and pre-ordered it right away. When I received it yesterday, I started reading and told myself I’d stop after 25 pages to break it up. Then I got to 50 pages, then I got to 100, next thing I knew I was reading until 12:30 a.m.. This is a wonderful look into the lives of two young adults trying to find human connection in chaotic NYC life while in grad school. The characters are well fleshed out and the dialogue is believable. The author tackles grad school literariness wonderfully without pretension or esotericism. The language of the book is exciting to read, and at times felt like mental floss. I also loved how the apartment and Stuy Town were almost characters in and of themselves. Anyone who knows NYC well will really enjoy the geographical references, but if you don’t know it, you’ll likely want to investigate yourself. I can see myself reading this more than once.

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