The Winner

"Be prepared to fully lose yourself in The Winner --a book I started and then simply couldn''t stop reading. Teddy Wayne has written a timely, topical novel that still somehow feels like a classic." -- Liz Moore, New York Times bestselling author of Long Bright River

Autorentext

Teddy Wayne is the author of seven novels and a winner of a Whiting Writers’ Award and an NEA Creative Writing Fellowship as well as a finalist for the Young Lions Fiction Award, PEN/Bingham Prize, and Dayton Literary Peace Prize. A frequent contributor to The New Yorker and a former columnist for the New York Times, he has taught at Columbia University and Washington University in St. Louis. He lives in Brooklyn with his family.

Klappentext

"Conor O'Toole has never in his life been in a place as casually glamorous as this New England community, a gated world its residents fondly call 'The Neck.' He's taken a summer job here as a tennis instructor, living in a guest cottage in exchange for lessons and a chance to study for the bar exam. ... But, grateful as he is for the blissful beauty of the Neck, he must focus on earning as much money as he can to help his mom pay the bills, and it isn't proving as easy as he expected to sign up new clients for tennis lessons. That is, until a sharp-tongued divorcâee named Catherine appears on the court, offering to pay him twice his usual hourly rate. Soon, it becomes clear that she's expecting additional, ah, services, for her money, and Conor tumbles into a sexy, erotic affair unlike anything he's experienced before"--

Zusammenfassung

A New York Times Book Review and Washington Post "Top-10 Thriller of the Year"

A New Yorker, Vogue, Esquire, Elle, and Bookshop.org "Best Book of the Year'

Conor O’Toole has never been anywhere like Cutters Neck, a gated community near Cape Cod. It’s a sweet deal for the summer: in exchange for tennis lessons, he receives free lodging in a luxurious guest cottage, far from the cramped Yonkers apartment he shares with his diabetic mother.

In this oceanfront paradise, however, new clients prove hard to come by, and Conor has bills to pay. When Catherine, a sharp-tongued divorcée, offers double his usual rate, he soon realizes she is expecting additional, off the court services for her money, and Conor tumbles into a secret erotic affair unlike anything he’s experienced before.

Despite his steamy flings with a woman twice his age, he simultaneously finds himself falling for an artsy, outspoken girl he meets on the beach. With cautious, strategic planning, Conor somehow manages this tangled web—until he makes one final, irreversible mistake.

A dark, explosive literary thriller that brilliantly skewers the elite, Whiting Award winner Teddy Wayne’s unputdownable novel is cinematic, shocking, and a psychological masterpiece.