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A razor-sharp novel that skewers the life of the uber-rich in the vein of The White Lotus, with shades of The Talented Mr Ripley and The Graduate

'A gripping, provocative, and delightfully shocking novel' Nathan Hill

Conor is a recent graduate from a law school no one has heard of. Without any job prospects and needing to support his chronically ill mother, he takes a summer job teaching tennis at the affluent gated community of Cutters Neck, Massachusetts. One of his first students is Catherine, a magnetic divorcee keen to hire him for more than advice on her serve. What begins as a transactional arrangement soon develops into an intoxicating sexual relationship.

Things become even more complicated when Conor encounters Emily, with whom he has his first taste of real intimacy. Against his better judgment, he soon finds himself living a double life that inevitably leads to disaster.

Conor knows how hard it is to win against those with money and power. In his fight for survival, he has to put emotion aside and play with only his wits - after all, in tennis, love means nothing

'A lean, careening thrill … one of my favourite books of the year' Megan Nolan‘Riveting reading' The Times'Irresistible … A page-turning story of sex, power, and money' Vogue, Best Books of 2024 So Far A razor-sharp novel that skewers the life of the uber-rich in the vein of The White Lotus, with shades of The Talented Mr Ripley and The Graduate Conor comes from nothing, but he knows how to win.Tennis has taught him how to be relentless. How to work hard and stay patient, even when your opponent has every advantage.Tennis is what takes Conor to a gated community for the summer, where he can give overpriced lessons to the super-rich. It brings him to Catherine, a bored but intoxicating divorcee twice his age. And to Emily, a girl he might actually love.As the summer heats up, Conor finds himself not just playing a game, but fighting for survival. Will he put his emotions aside for a greater prize? After all, in tennis, love means nothing. TOP OF THE LIST ON THE NEW YORK TIMES' BEST THRILLERS OF 2024 ‘Wayne’s plot was made to gallop, and it does not disappoint’ New York Times'Terrific' Wall Street Journal'Well-paced, smart … A savvy take on sex, money and power … A movie-ready page turner' Washington Post WHAT READERS ARE SAYING… 'Wow, talk about a can’t-put-down book' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'Aced it! An absolute page turner!' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'I had hard time going to sleep at night because I was so engaged and couldn’t stop reading' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'Where in the world have I been that I have never discovered this writer before??' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

''A lean, careening thrill … one of my favourite books of the year'' Megan Nolan‘Riveting reading'' The Times''Irresistible … A page-turning story of sex, power, and money'' Vogue, Best Books of 2024 So FarA razor-sharp novel that skewers the life of the uber-rich in the vein of The White Lotus, with shades of The Talented Mr Ripley and The GraduateConor comes from nothing, but he knows how to win.Tennis has taught him how to be relentless. How to work hard and stay patient, even when your opponent has every advantage.Tennis is what takes Conor to a gated community for the summer, where he can give overpriced lessons to the super-rich. It brings him to Catherine, a bored but intoxicating divorcee twice his age. And to Emily, a girl he might actually love.As the summer heats up, Conor finds himself not just playing a game, but fighting for survival. Will he put his emotions aside for a greater prize? After all, in tennis, love means nothing.TOP OF THE LIST ON THE NEW YORK TIMES'' BEST THRILLERS OF 2024 ‘Wayne’s plot was made to gallop, and it does not disappoint’ New York Times''Terrific'' Wall Street Journal''Well-paced, smart … A savvy take on sex, money and power … A movie-ready page turner'' Washington PostWHAT READERS ARE SAYING…''Wow, talk about a can’t-put-down book'' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐''Aced it! An absolute page turner!'' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐''I had hard time going to sleep at night because I was so engaged and couldn’t stop reading'' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐''Where in the world have I been that I have never discovered this writer before??'' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

'A lean, careening thrill … one of my favourite books of the year' Megan Nolan‘Riveting reading' The Times'Irresistible … A page-turning story of sex, power, and money' Vogue, Best Books of 2024 So Far A razor-sharp novel that skewers the life of the uber-rich in the vein of The White Lotus, with shades of The Talented Mr Ripley and The Graduate Conor comes from nothing, but he knows how to win.Tennis has taught him how to be relentless. How to work hard and stay patient, even when your opponent has every advantage.Tennis is what takes Conor to a gated community for the summer, where he can give overpriced lessons to the super-rich. It brings him to Catherine, a bored but intoxicating divorcee twice his age. And to Emily, a girl he might actually love.As the summer heats up, Conor finds himself not just playing a game, but fighting for survival. Will he put his emotions aside for a greater prize? After all, in tennis, love means nothing. TOP OF THE LIST ON THE NEW YORK TIMES' BEST THRILLERS OF 2024 ‘Wayne’s plot was made to gallop, and it does not disappoint’ New York Times'Terrific' Wall Street Journal'Well-paced, smart … A savvy take on sex, money and power … A movie-ready page turner' Washington Post WHAT READERS ARE SAYING… 'Wow, talk about a can’t-put-down book' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'Aced it! An absolute page turner!' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'I had hard time going to sleep at night because I was so engaged and couldn’t stop reading' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'Where in the world have I been that I have never discovered this writer before??' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Named a ‘Most-Anticipated Book’ by The New York Times and LitHub Steven Hammer was once a literary star. Now, his career is floundering, his marriage to high-powered banker Lucy is crumbling, and the only bright spot in his life is Astrid, the Norwegian au pair who cares for their children – and reveres his neglected novels. But what begins as a secret infatuation soon spirals into a scandal that makes them both infamous.As a headline-grabbing trial captivates the world with a salacious story of sex, power, and betrayal, Steven must confront the wreckage he’s created – and the deeper insecurities that fuelled it. Is Astrid an innocent young woman caught up in a case beyond her control, or a calculating femme fatale? And how far will he go, driven by desperation and obsession, for her professed love?With propulsive momentum, sharp wit and sly, lucid prose, The Au Pair is a sleek literary thriller about failure, desire, and the unravelling of a man as he grapples with his fading relevance – when the lies others spin pale beside the fictions we tell ourselves. Perfect for fans of The Truth about the Harry Quebert Affair and Fleishman is in Trouble * * * * Praise for The Au Pair: ‘The Au Pair is Teddy Wayne at his immensely readable best. The plot ratchets up in the creepiest, most chilling way while deliciously skewering the Brooklyn literary set. It’s a book you’ll tear through, one that leaves you guessing until the last page’ Maria Semple, author of Go Gentle‘This compulsive thriller gleefully and skilfully skewers both stereotypical tropes and the contemporary publishing landscape’ Boston Globe‘You may think you know where it’s going, this novel about a disappointed writer, his frosty wife, and a comely young nanny. You may be in for a surprise. Propulsive but also insightful – and funny, in its merciless skewering of midlife, marriage, and more – The Au Pair cements Teddy Wayne’s status as a master of the wicked little literary thriller’ Rumaan Alam, author of Leave the World Behind ‘A heart-pounding mystery that reads like a movie’ People ‘An ingenious dissection of marriage, masculinity, and privilege, propelled by a gimlet-eyed wit… A sly, unsettling hybrid of social satire and domestic thriller’ Kirkus Reviews (starred review)‘[A] tightly constructed, endlessly exhilarating thriller’ Town & Country‘I could not put it down. I raced through it’ Jennifer Weiner‘A sharp domestic thriller… An intricate look at the perils of seeking admiration. Readers will be hard-pressed to put this down’ Publishers Weekly‘Teddy Wayne has written a book about selling out that doesn’t—a guilty pleasure that earns its guilt. The Au Pair is a canny seduction wrapped in a page-turning thriller wrapped in an elegy for the literary novel: a threefold delight’ Ayad Akhtar, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Homeland Elegies and The Radiance‘I tore through The Au Pair in a single day and lamented only that it wasn't twice as long. I hunger for literary thrillers with clean, lovely sentences that are also generous with the goods: narrative and erotic tension, plot twists, and a sly sense of humour about their characters. Teddy Wayne delivered, yet again, on all counts’ Melissa Febos, bestselling author of Girlhood and The Dry Season‘Wayne is not upending noir so much as paying a sneaky contemporary homage. You’ll toss it across the room in maddening disbelief, then quickly pick it up and keep reading’ Chicago Tribune‘A suspenseful mystery with both expected and unexpected plot twists … With his descriptive skill and insightful humour, Wayne elevates a potentially stereotypical setup into an examination of ego, professional disappointment, and self-delusion’ Library Journal‘A slow-burn, messy look at modern marriage … One can’t look away’ Booklist‘Subtly subversive, thoroughly enjoyable’ Air Mail

Named a ‘Most-Anticipated Book’ by The New York Times and LitHub Steven Hammer was once a literary star. Now, his career is floundering, his marriage to high-powered banker Lucy is crumbling, and the only bright spot in his life is Astrid, the Norwegian au pair who cares for their children – and reveres his neglected novels. But what begins as a secret infatuation soon spirals into a scandal that makes them both infamous.As a headline-grabbing trial captivates the world with a salacious story of sex, power, and betrayal, Steven must confront the wreckage he’s created – and the deeper insecurities that fuelled it. Is Astrid an innocent young woman caught up in a case beyond her control, or a calculating femme fatale? And how far will he go, driven by desperation and obsession, for her professed love?With propulsive momentum, sharp wit and sly, lucid prose, The Au Pair is a sleek literary thriller about failure, desire, and the unravelling of a man as he grapples with his fading relevance – when the lies others spin pale beside the fictions we tell ourselves. Perfect for fans of The Truth about the Harry Quebert Affair and Fleishman is in Trouble * * * * Praise for The Au Pair: ‘The Au Pair is Teddy Wayne at his immensely readable best. The plot ratchets up in the creepiest, most chilling way while deliciously skewering the Brooklyn literary set. It’s a book you’ll tear through, one that leaves you guessing until the last page’ Maria Semple, author of Go Gentle‘This compulsive thriller gleefully and skilfully skewers both stereotypical tropes and the contemporary publishing landscape’ Boston Globe‘You may think you know where it’s going, this novel about a disappointed writer, his frosty wife, and a comely young nanny. You may be in for a surprise. Propulsive but also insightful – and funny, in its merciless skewering of midlife, marriage, and more – The Au Pair cements Teddy Wayne’s status as a master of the wicked little literary thriller’ Rumaan Alam, author of Leave the World Behind ‘A heart-pounding mystery that reads like a movie’ People ‘An ingenious dissection of marriage, masculinity, and privilege, propelled by a gimlet-eyed wit… A sly, unsettling hybrid of social satire and domestic thriller’ Kirkus Reviews (starred review)‘[A] tightly constructed, endlessly exhilarating thriller’ Town & Country‘I could not put it down. I raced through it’ Jennifer Weiner‘A sharp domestic thriller… An intricate look at the perils of seeking admiration. Readers will be hard-pressed to put this down’ Publishers Weekly‘Teddy Wayne has written a book about selling out that doesn’t—a guilty pleasure that earns its guilt. The Au Pair is a canny seduction wrapped in a page-turning thriller wrapped in an elegy for the literary novel: a threefold delight’ Ayad Akhtar, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Homeland Elegies and The Radiance‘I tore through The Au Pair in a single day and lamented only that it wasn't twice as long. I hunger for literary thrillers with clean, lovely sentences that are also generous with the goods: narrative and erotic tension, plot twists, and a sly sense of humour about their characters. Teddy Wayne delivered, yet again, on all counts’ Melissa Febos, bestselling author of Girlhood and The Dry Season‘Wayne is not upending noir so much as paying a sneaky contemporary homage. You’ll toss it across the room in maddening disbelief, then quickly pick it up and keep reading’ Chicago Tribune‘A suspenseful mystery with both expected and unexpected plot twists … With his descriptive skill and insightful humour, Wayne elevates a potentially stereotypical setup into an examination of ego, professional disappointment, and self-delusion’ Library Journal‘A slow-burn, messy look at modern marriage … One can’t look away’ Booklist‘Subtly subversive, thoroughly enjoyable’ Air Mail

Named a ‘Most-Anticipated Book’ by The New York Times and LitHub Steven Hammer was once a literary star. Now, his career is floundering, his marriage to high-powered banker Lucy is crumbling, and the only bright spot in his life is Astrid, the Norwegian au pair who cares for their children – and reveres his neglected novels. But what begins as a secret infatuation soon spirals into a scandal that makes them both infamous.As a headline-grabbing trial captivates the world with a salacious story of sex, power, and betrayal, Steven must confront the wreckage he’s created – and the deeper insecurities that fuelled it. Is Astrid an innocent young woman caught up in a case beyond her control, or a calculating femme fatale? And how far will he go, driven by desperation and obsession, for her professed love?With propulsive momentum, sharp wit and sly, lucid prose, The Au Pair is a sleek literary thriller about failure, desire, and the unravelling of a man as he grapples with his fading relevance – when the lies others spin pale beside the fictions we tell ourselves. Perfect for fans of The Truth about the Harry Quebert Affair and Fleishman is in Trouble * * * * Praise for The Au Pair: ‘The Au Pair is Teddy Wayne at his immensely readable best. The plot ratchets up in the creepiest, most chilling way while deliciously skewering the Brooklyn literary set. It’s a book you’ll tear through, one that leaves you guessing until the last page’ Maria Semple, author of Go Gentle‘This compulsive thriller gleefully and skilfully skewers both stereotypical tropes and the contemporary publishing landscape’ Boston Globe‘You may think you know where it’s going, this novel about a disappointed writer, his frosty wife, and a comely young nanny. You may be in for a surprise. Propulsive but also insightful – and funny, in its merciless skewering of midlife, marriage, and more – The Au Pair cements Teddy Wayne’s status as a master of the wicked little literary thriller’ Rumaan Alam, author of Leave the World Behind ‘A heart-pounding mystery that reads like a movie’ People ‘An ingenious dissection of marriage, masculinity, and privilege, propelled by a gimlet-eyed wit… A sly, unsettling hybrid of social satire and domestic thriller’ Kirkus Reviews (starred review)‘[A] tightly constructed, endlessly exhilarating thriller’ Town & Country‘I could not put it down. I raced through it’ Jennifer Weiner‘A sharp domestic thriller… An intricate look at the perils of seeking admiration. Readers will be hard-pressed to put this down’ Publishers Weekly‘Teddy Wayne has written a book about selling out that doesn’t—a guilty pleasure that earns its guilt. The Au Pair is a canny seduction wrapped in a page-turning thriller wrapped in an elegy for the literary novel: a threefold delight’ Ayad Akhtar, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Homeland Elegies and The Radiance‘I tore through The Au Pair in a single day and lamented only that it wasn't twice as long. I hunger for literary thrillers with clean, lovely sentences that are also generous with the goods: narrative and erotic tension, plot twists, and a sly sense of humour about their characters. Teddy Wayne delivered, yet again, on all counts’ Melissa Febos, bestselling author of Girlhood and The Dry Season‘Wayne is not upending noir so much as paying a sneaky contemporary homage. You’ll toss it across the room in maddening disbelief, then quickly pick it up and keep reading’ Chicago Tribune‘A suspenseful mystery with both expected and unexpected plot twists … With his descriptive skill and insightful humour, Wayne elevates a potentially stereotypical setup into an examination of ego, professional disappointment, and self-delusion’ Library Journal‘A slow-burn, messy look at modern marriage … One can’t look away’ Booklist‘Subtly subversive, thoroughly enjoyable’ Air Mail

"A brilliant book. Karim Issar is one of the freshest, funniest heroes I''ve come across in a long time" in this coming of age novel set in NYC during Y2K (Ben Fountain, bestselling author of Brief Encounters with Che Guevara)."Sometimes you do not truly observe something until you study it in reverse," writes Karim Issar upon arrival to New York City from Qatar in 1999. Fluent in numbers, logic, and business jargon yet often baffled by human connection, the young financial wizard soon creates a computer program named Kapitoil that predicts oil futures and reaps record profits for his company.At first an introspective loner adrift in New York''s social scenes, he anchors himself to his legendary boss Derek Schrub and Rebecca, a sensitive, disillusioned colleague who may understand him better than he does himself. Her influence, and his father''s disapproval of Karim''s Americanization, cause him to question the moral implications of Kapitoil, moving him toward a decision that will determine his future, his firm''s, and to whom—and where—his loyalties lie."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"[A] strong and heartfelt debut." —Publishers Weekly, starred review"This wonderfully assured debut novel, at once poignant, insightful, and funny, details Karim''s passage through a new world of corporate sharks, Manhattan clubs, museums, Bob Dylan lyrics, and personal growth." —Booklist, starred review

One of the most critically acclaimed books of the year, Teddy Wayne’s second novel is a scathing and brilliant novel about celebrity culture, told through the voice of an eleven-year-old pop singer and megastar—an enduring yet timely portrait of the American dream gone awry. “More than a scabrous sendup of American celebrity culture; it’s also a poignant portrait of one young artist’s coming of age.” —Michiko Kakutani, The New York TimesWith “assured prose and captivating storytelling” (Oprah.com’s Book of the Week), The Love Song of Jonny Valentine also showcases “one of the most complicated portrayals of the mother-son relationship since Room” (BookPage). Touring the country in a desperate attempt to save a career he’s not sure he even wants, Jonny is both driven by his mother’s ambition and haunted by his father’s absence, constantly searching for a familiar face among the crowds. Utterly convincing, whip-smart, yet endearingly vulnerable, with an “unforgettable” voice (Publishers Weekly, starred review), the eleven-year-old pop megastar sounds “like Holden Caulfield Jr. adrift in Access Hollywood hell” (Rolling Stone). Called “a showstopper” (The Boston Globe), “hugely entertaining” (The Washington Post), “heartbreakingly convincing” (People), “buoyant, smart, searing” (Entertainment Weekly), and “touching and unexpectedly suspenseful” (The Wall Street Journal), this extraordinary novel has been widely embraced as a literary masterpiece and the rare “satire with a heart” (Library Journal, starred review).

The critically acclaimed and highly anticipated novel from award-winning writer Teddy Wayne is an unsettling work that is powerful and complex.

“Powerful.” —Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s Fresh Air Named a best book of the year by NPR, Kirkus Reviews, 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, his social prospects seem unlikely to change, sentencing him to a lifetime of anonymity. Then he meets Veronica Morgan Wells. Struck by her beauty, wit, and sophisticated Manhattan upbringing, David becomes instantly infatuated. 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. 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. It is a stunning and timely literary achievement from one of the rising stars of American fiction.

A New York Times Editors ChoiceLonglisted for the 2020 Simpson / Joyce Carol Oates Literary PrizeOne of Vogue.com''s “Best Books of 2020 So Far”One of Elle''s “Best Books of 2020 So Far”Named A Most-Anticipated Book by The New York Times, Vogue, The Boston Globe, Salon, The Millions, Inside Hook, and Vol. 1 BrooklynIn 1996, the unnamed narrator of Teddy Wayne''s Apartment is 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.The 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, Apartment is a gutting portrait of one of New York''s many lost, disconnected souls by a writer with an uncommon aptitude for embodying them.

"At its finest, a worthy successor to those seriocomic novels of Bellow." –Brandon Taylor, The New York Times Book ReviewNamed a Most Anticipated Book of 2022 by Esquire, LitHub,Publisher''s Lunch, Dandelion Chandelier, and Chicago Review of BooksFrom acclaimed, Whiting Award-winning author Teddy Wayne, the hilarious, incisive, yet deeply poignant story of a liberal armchair-revolutionary desperate to save America from itself.Paul is a recently demoted adjunct instructor of freshman comp, a divorced but doting Brooklyn father, and a self-desc­ribed "curmudgeonly crank" cataloging his resentment of the priorities of modern life in a book called The Luddite Manifesto. Outraged by the authoritarian creeps ruining the country, he is determined to better the future for his young daughter, one aggrieved lecture at a time.Shockingly, others aren''t very receptive to Paul''s scoldings. His child grows distant, preferring superficial entertainment to her father''s terrarium and anti-technological tutelage. His careerist students are less interested than ever in what he has to say, and his last remaining friends appear ready to ditch him. To make up for lost income, he moonlights as a ride-share driver and moves in with his elderly mother, whose third-act changes confound and upset him. As one indignity follows the next, and Paul''s disaffection with his circumstances and society mounts, he concocts a dramatic plan to right the world''s wrongs and give himself a more significant place in it.Dyspeptically funny, bubbling over with insights into America''s cultural landscape and a certain type of cast-aside man who wants to rectify it, The Great Man Theory is the work of a brilliant, original writer at the height of his powers.

CONOR NUNCA HABÍA ESTADO EN UN LUGAR TAN GLAMUROSO…NI TAN PELIGROSO.El plan es ideal para pasar el verano: alojamiento gratuito en una urbanización de lujo a cambio de clases de tenis muy bien pagadas. Además, el lugar está cerca del mar y, lo más importante, lejos del estrecho apartamento que comparte con su madre diabética.Pronto Catherine, una atractiva mujer divorciada de lengua mordaz, le ofrece a Conor el doble de su tarifa habitual como profesor de tenis. Él no tarda en darse cuenta de que ella espera servicios adicionales fuera de la cancha a cambio de su dinero, dinero que necesita, por lo que se ve envuelto en una aventura erótica secreta y, debe reconocerlo, increíblemente excitante con una mujer que le dobla la edad.En paralelo a sus aventuras con Catherine, Conor no puede evitar enamorarse de la chica artística y sincera que conoce un día en la playa. Al principio parece que puede manejar el triángulo sin perder el control, hasta que comete un error irreversible…