Renata Adler
American novelist, journalist, essayist, and film critic, best known for the novels Speedboat (1976) and Pitch Dark (1983) and for her criticism and reporting for publications including The New Yorker and The New York Times.
Books
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1. Mai Ci Eravamo Annoiati
A spare, fragmentary novel made up of sharp, vignette-like scenes and aphoristic observations that follow a witty, detached young woman moving through journalism, relationships and the simmering chaos of urban life; its elliptical voice and dark humor chronicle small violences, sudden losses and the absurdities of American culture, capturing emotional dislocation and the ways personal history and public events—illness, death, failed intimacies—shape a brittle, observant consciousness.