The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.
Author: Adelle Waldman
Desc: Writer Nate Piven's star is rising. After several lean and striving years he has his pick of both magazine assignments and women: Juliet the hotshot business reporter; Elisa his gorgeous ex-girlfriend now friend; and Hannah "almost universally regarded as nice and smart or smart and nice " who holds her own in conversation with his friends. When one relationship grows more serious Nate is forced to consider what it is he really wants. In Nate's 21st-century literary world wit and conversation are not at all dead. Is romance? Novelist Adelle Waldman plunges into the psyche of a flawed sometimes infuriating modern man--one who thinks of himself as beyond superficial judgment yet constantly struggles with his own status anxiety who is drawn to women yet has a habit of letting them down in ways that may just make him an emblem of our times. The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. is a tale of one young man's search for happiness--and an inside look at how he really thinks about women sex and love.