β Scribed by Teddy Wayne
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Longlisted for the 2020 Simpson / Joyce Carol Oates Literary Prize
One of Vogue.comβs βBest Books of 2020 So Farβ
One of Elleβs βBest Books of 2020 So Farβ
Named A Most-Anticipated Book byThe New York Times**, Vogue,The Boston Globe, Salon,**
The Millions,Inside Hook, andVol. 1 Brooklyn**
In 1996, the unnamed narrator of Teddy WayneβsApartmentis attending the MFA writing program at Columbia on his fatherβs 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 narratorβs rapport with Billy develops into the friendship heβs never had due to a lifetime of holding people at armβs length, hovering at the periphery, feeling βfundamentally defective.β 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,Apartmentis a gutting portrait of one of New Yorkβs many lost, disconnected souls by a writer with an uncommon aptitude for embodying them.
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