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The Falconer
- Author
- Dana Czapnik
- Narrator
- Candace Thaxton
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Publish Date
- 4 April 2019
- Run Time
- 8 hours 22 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
'An electric debut'
New York Times
'Exhilarating' Claire Messud
'Deeply affecting' Salman Rushdie
A new coming-of-age classic, an early '90s New York-set novel of love, basketball, art and feminism
Seventeen-year-old Lucy Adler, a street-smart, trash-talking baller, is often the only girl on the public courts. Lucy's inner life is a contradiction. She's by turns quixotic and cynical, insecure and self-possessed and, despite herself, is in unrequited love with her best friend and pick-up teammate Percy, son of a prominent New York family who is trying to resist his upper crust fate.
As Lucy questions accepted notions of success, bristling against her own hunger for male approval, she is drawn into the world of a pair of provocative female artists living in what remains of New York's bohemia.
In her hit US debut, Dana Czapnik memorably captures the voice of a young woman in the first flush of freedom searching for an authentic way to live and love.
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Details
- Author
- Dana Czapnik
- Narrator
- Candace Thaxton
- Duration
- 8 hours 22 minutes
- Release Date
- 4 April 2019
- ISBN
- 9780571355952
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Genre
- Narrative theme: Coming of age, Fiction: general and literary
Synopsis
'An electric debut' New York Times 'Exhilarating' Claire Messud 'Deeply affecting' Salman RushdieA new coming-of-age classic, an early '90s New York-set novel of love, basketball, art and feminism Seventeen-year-old Lucy Adler, a street-smart, trash-talking baller, is often the only girl on the public courts. Lucy's inner life is a contradiction. She's by turns quixotic and cynical, insecure and self-possessed and, despite herself, is in unrequited love with her best friend and pick-up teammate Percy, son of a prominent New York family who is trying to resist his upper crust fate.As Lucy questions accepted notions of success, bristling against her own hunger for male approval, she is drawn into the world of a pair of provocative female artists living in what remains of New York's bohemia. In her hit US debut, Dana Czapnik memorably captures the voice of a young woman in the first flush of freedom searching for an authentic way to live and love.
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