In her sizzling new novel, Tama Janowitz moves beyond the world of the single woman (Slaves of New York, A Certain Age), and now targets a young woman growing ever restless in her marriage, and ever hopeful that the next bed will produce someone more exciting. As she moves from man to man, Peyton Amberg slowly but surely loses her youthfulness, her good looks, even her sanity, as her paramours become rougher and the sex more dangerous.
A savvy riff on the classic figure of Madam Bovary, Peyton Amberg is a caustic and brilliant satire of contemporary marriage as it is undermined by free-floating lust and exploits of a woman yearning for fulfillment outside of rigid societal structure.
Peyton Amberg is nasty, funny, jaundiced, sarcastic, searingly honest, and mesmerizing from beginning to end.
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Praise for Tama Janowitz:
"A singular talent."
--Jay McInerney
"A true original with an eye for quirky detail . . . Janowitz's lean, satirical vignettes put her in the stylistic company of Fran Lebowitz and Jay McInerney."
--San Francisco Chronicle
"Funny, reflective . . . wonderfully sharp."
--The Washington Post
"Tama Janowitz has been on the cover of New York magazine, on The Today Show, on the arm of Andy Warhol . . . Tama Janowitz is sizzling."
--The Dallas Morning News
"The razzmatazz is justified. . . Janowitz delivers."
--St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"Janowitz is a fearless writer."
--New York Magazine
"One of the funniest books I have read, and the bleakest . . . This is a novel about class and sex in America, raw, rude, upsetting, and immensely invigorating."
- Fay Weldon, writing for The Guardian (U.K.)
"A no-hold barred take on the international romps of a modern-day Madame Bovary."
- Publishers Weekly
"A writer of considerable talent."
- The New York Observer
"A penetrating eye."
- New York magazine
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