The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.: A Novel

<p><b>The national bestseller, named a best book of the year by <i>The New Yorker</i>, <i>NPR</i>, <i>Slate</i>, <i>The Economist</i>, <i>The New Republic</i>, <i>Bookforum</i>, <i>Baltimore City Paper</i>, <i>The Daily Beast</i>, <i>National Journal</i>, <i>San Francisco Chronicle</i>, <i>Chicago Reader,</i> <i>Cosmopolitan</i>, <i>Elle</i>, <i>Buzzfeed</i> and many others. A <i>New York Times</i> Editors' Choice and a <i>Washington Post</i> Notable book.</b><br><b></b><br>&quot;Adelle Waldman's debut novel, <i>The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.</i>, scrutinizes Nate and the subculture that he thrives in with a patient, anthropological detachment. Ms. Waldman has sorted and cross-categorized the inhabitants of Nate's world with a witty, often breathtaking precision...&quot;<b> -- Maria Russo, <i>The New York Times</i></b><br><i><b></b></i><br>&quot;Adelle Waldman just may be this generation's Jane Austen&quot;<b> -- <i>The Boston Globe</i></b><br><b><i></i></b><br>A debut novel by a brilliant young woman about the romantic life of a brilliant young man. <br>Writer Nate Piven's star is rising. 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, &quot;almost universally regarded as nice and smart, or smart and nice,&quot; who holds her own in conversation with his friends. When one relationship grows more serious, Nate is forced to consider what it is he really wants. <br>In Nate's 21st-century literary world, wit and conversation are not at all dead. Is romance? Novelist Adelle Waldman plunges into the psyche of a flawed, sometimes infuriating modern man -- one 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 in ways that may just make him an emblem of our times. With tough-minded intelligence and wry good humor <b><i>The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.</i></b> 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.</p>