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Read in One Sitting I don't want to give too much away, but even knowing where it was heading, I was totally absorbed by the chilling portrait of David Federman-- till I reached the point where I realized I'd had not the slightest idea where it was heading! I was astonished and delighted, but there was more to the journey, and the chill returned with a vengeance. To put it simply, it's the first novel I've read in decades without putting it down once I started. My back and neck are still sore, but small price to pay.. Well done I usually avoid books written by, for, and about Ivy Leagers, and was also hesitant about the use of second-person POV. I shouldn't have worried Teddy Wayne really pulls it off, with a chilling, believable narrator and the woman he pursues. Lots of dark, knowing comedy about the state of life on a highly competitive college campus, too. I'll be reading other Wayne books.. "Middlebrow novel with Harvard settings gets a D" according to Always Reading. So predictable in plot and pretentious in style. This is the first Teddy Wayne novel I've read and I won't read another. Widely reviewed as an academic novel, Loner focuses almost entirely on, and in, the shallowly entitled and amoral mind of David Federman--or, in English, David Featherweight. The female characters have no weight at all.

Teddy Wayne, the author of Loner, The Love Song of Jonny Valentine, and Kapitoil, is the winner of a Whiting Writers’ Award and an NEA Fellowship as well as a finalist for the Young Lions Fiction Award, PEN/Bingham Prize, and Dayton Literary Peace Prize. . He lives in New York. He writes regularly for The New Yorker, The New York Times, <

Determined to win her attention and an invite into her glamorous world, he begins compromising his moral standards for this one, great shot at happiness. Initially, however, his social prospects seem unlikely to change, sentencing him to a lifetime of anonymity.Then he meets Veronica Morgan Wells. But both Veronica and David, it turns out, are not exactly as they seem.Loner turns the traditional campus novel on its head as it explores ambition, class, and gender politics. “Powerful.” —Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s Fresh AirAn Indie Next Selection of Independent Booksellers • One of the most anticipated novels of the fall from New York magazine, Glamour, Lit Hub, Boston magazine, The Millions, and BookPageDavid Federman has never felt appreciated. It is a stunning and timely literary achievement from one of the rising stars of American fiction.. 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

His bemusement is real, and often funny." —Bookforum"Loner moves ahead to its climax (and a superbly executed plot twist) with the sickening momentum of a horror movie It stands in stark contrast to Mr. PRAISE FOR LONER:   “Engrossing… highlights hot-button issues on today’s campuses, making it seem all too real.” —People, “The Best Books of the Fall”"Wayne has created a uniquely terrifying and compelling protagonist for such a funny book the best second-person novel I've read since Sam Lipsyte's Homeland a great, lethal little book." —The Boston Globe“Like all transgressive works of fiction, Loner is bound to be controversial. A startlingly sharp study of not just collegiate culture, but of social fo

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