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  • The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.

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  • Written by: Adelle Waldman
  • Narrated by: Nick Podehl
  • Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
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The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.

Written by: Adelle Waldman
Narrated by: Nick Podehl
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Publisher's Summary

A debut novel by a brilliant young woman about the coming-of-age of a brilliant young literary man.

Nate Piven is a rising star in Brooklyn’s literary scene. After several lean and striving years, he has his pick of both magazine assignments and women: Juliet, the hotshot business reporter; Elisa, his gorgeous ex-girlfriend, now friend; and Hannah, "almost universally regarded as nice and smart, or smart and nice" and who holds her own in conversation with his friends. But when one relationship grows more serious, Nate is forced to consider what it is he really wants.

In this 21st-century literary world, wit and conversation are not at all dead. Is romance? Novelist Adelle Waldman plunges into the psyche of a modern man - who thinks of himself as beyond superficial judgment, yet constantly struggles with his own status anxiety; who is drawn to women, yet has a habit of letting them down. With tough-minded intelligence and wry good humor The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. is an absorbing tale of one young man’s search for happiness - and an inside look at how he really thinks about women, sex and love.
©2013 Adelle Waldman (P)2013 Brilliance Audio, Inc.
Coming of Age Literary Fiction
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What the critics say

"Nate is so convincingly drawn you’ll want to hug him, lecture him and shake some sense into him simultaneously. Waldman has deftly written a laugh-out-loud treatise on why he didn’t call." (Allison Amend, author of A Nearly Perfect Copy)

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Annoying but fine enough

A few friends said they really liked this book a lot, but they read it. I think the audio book doesn’t do the story and characters justice. It’s just very hard for one male voice actor to properly voice so many characters, several female, who are supposed to be young, naive and a bit annoying. Every character sounded like a joke and it felt grating. I wonder if it would have been better in a non-audio version.

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