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Named a best book of the year by NPR, Kirkus Reviews, and BookPage - One of the most anticipated novels of the fall from New York magazine, Glamour, Lit Hub, Boston magazine, The Millions, and BookPage

David Federman has never felt appreciated. An academically gifted yet painfully forgettable member of his New Jersey high school class, the withdrawn, mild-mannered freshman arrives at Harvard fully expecting to be embraced by a new tribe of high-achieving peers. Initially, however,...

Ein junger angehender Anwalt ergattert einen Sommerjob in einem Tennisclub am Meer - wo er in ein Netz aus kompromittiertem Ehrgeiz, Begehren und Sex gerät, aus dem es am Ende nur noch einen Ausweg gibt. 

Conor O'Toole muss den Sommer über für die Anwaltsprüfung lernen. Er ist knapp bei Kasse, hat einen Kredit abzuzahlen und unterstützt seine kranke, arbeitslose Mutter.

Ein Glück also, dass er einen Job als Tennislehrer in Cutters Neck, Massachusetts, ergattert hat, seine Klientel sind wohlbetuchte Anwälte, Manager mit vollen Terminkalendern. Mit Catherine, einer...

In his rave on the cover of The New York Times Book Review, Jess Walter praised Wayne's writing for its "feats of unlikely virtuosity" and the boy at its center as "a being of true longing and depth, and...a devastating weapon of cultural...

"Teddy Wayne has written a brilliant book. Karim Issar is one of the freshest, funniest heroes I've come across in a long time."
-- Ben Fountain, bestselling author of Brief Encounters with Che Guevara

"An innovative and incisive meditation on the wages of corporate greed, the fundamental darkness of its vision lit by the author's great comic intelligence and wit."
-- Kathryn Davis, author of The Thin Place, Hell: A Novel, and Versailles

With a fresh and singular voice, Teddy Wayne marks his literary debut with the story of one 26 year...