{"product_id":"apartment-paperback","title":"Apartment - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTeddy Wayne\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA New York Times Editors Choice\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLonglisted for the 2020 Simpson \/ Joyce Carol Oates Literary Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of Vogue.com's \"Best Books of 2020 So Far\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of Elle's \"Best Books of 2020 So Far\"\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed A Most-Anticipated Book by \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e, Vogue, \u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe, Salon\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Millions\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eInside Hook\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eVol. 1 Brooklyn\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 1996, the unnamed narrator of Teddy Wayne's \u003ci\u003eApartment \u003c\/i\u003eis attending the MFA writing program at Columbia on his father's 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe narrator's rapport with Billy develops into the friendship he's never had due to a lifetime of holding people at arm's length, hovering at the periphery, feeling \"fundamentally defective.\" 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, \u003ci\u003eApartment \u003c\/i\u003eis a gutting portrait of one of New York's many lost, disconnected souls by a writer with an uncommon aptitude for embodying them.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTeddy Wayne\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of \u003ci\u003eLoner\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Love Song of Jonny Valentine\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eKapitoil\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the winner of a Whiting Writers' Award and an NEA Creative Writing Fellowship as well as a finalist for the Young Lions Fiction Award, the PEN\/Bingham Prize, and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. He is a regular contributor to the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eMcSweeney's\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.2 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 08, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51768272126240,"sku":"9781635577853","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/0068e172c93218b2034c4ce97201ec02.webp?v=1780326677","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/apartment-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}