Fleishman Is in Trouble
Now a major TV series starring Claire Danes & Jesse Eisenberg
$24.63
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
14 July 2020
Summary
‘Sharp and wicked, insightful and funny, and then suddenly so touching’ DAVID NICHOLLS
‘It is a Great Novel … It has depth, wit, nuance and life. Heartbreaking and funny’ NIGELLA LAWSON
‘This is the novel of the summer … There is no one that this book isn’t for. I can’t believe it’s a first novel. Pure brilliance’ INDIA KNIGHT, *THE SUNDAY TIMES*
‘Could be one of the books of my entire…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781472267078 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1472267079 |
| Author: | Taffy Brodesser-Akner |
| Publisher: | Headline Publishing Group |
| Imprint: | Wildfire |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 14 July 2020 |
| Weight: | 273g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 28mm |
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This book … is the most astonishingly brilliant Trojan horse of a novel. Begins as a hilarious, fast-paced tale of a middle-aged Manhattan man navigating fast sex culture of dating apps, ends as a gut-punch feminist text - Dolly Alderton, author of Everything I Know About Love
Here is a portrait of modern love and marriage that is blisteringly funny, wincingly painful, and - ultimately - both heartbreaking and humane. Fleishman Is in Trouble reminds me of the great novels of the 1960s and 1970s - just the sort of thing that Philip Roth or John Updike might have produced in their prime (except, of course, that the author understands women). Taffy Brodesser-Akner can write the pants off any novelist out there. She’s a star, and this book is a work of utter perfection - Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, LoveWonderful. Utterly blistering about how women have to live - a powerful feminist book wrapped with perfect stealth in a wildly entertaining, moving story - Marian Keyes, author of The BreakI have just finished Fleishman Is in Trouble… and feel bereft. I read it too fast, because I couldn’t stop, but can’t bear that it’s ended. It is a Great Novel (yes: cap G; Cap N). It has depth, wit, nuance and life. Heartbreaking and funny - Nigella LawsonSharp and wicked, insightful and funny, and then suddenly so touching - David Nicholls, author of One DayFrom its opening pages, Fleishman is in Trouble is shrewdly observed, brimming with wisdom and utterly of this moment. Not until its explosive final pages are you fully aware of its cunning ferocity. Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s debut is that rare and delicious treat: a page turner with heft - Where’d You Go, BernadetteFans of Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s whipsmart profiles will not be disappointed by her debut novel. Extending the same heady cocktail of forensic observation, sardonic wit and cynicism mixed with zeitgeist, Brodesser Akner writes a novel for our times: what makes a marriage? A parent? A man? And when does it all end? - Pandora SykesYou’re going to want to read this one … It centers on a man recently out of a marriage, but it’s about everything - love, friendship, life, death. Or, to borrow what we will now call the Tayari Jones standard, a literary novel with a great plot - SunburnAbout The Author
Taffy Brodesser-Akner
Taffy Brodesser-Akner is a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine. Fleishman Is in Trouble, her first novel, was a Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller, and was longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction. The TV adaptation from FX, created and executive produced by Taffy, was nominated for seven Emmys.
Long Island Compromise is her second novel.
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