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ISBN: 9780385351294
Format: Paper over boards
Year: 2025
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
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A big and big-hearted novel-one enthralling, transformative year in the life of a child actor coming of age in a bygone Manhattan, from the critically acclaimed author of Mr. Peanut ("A brilliant, powerful, and memorable book" -The New York Times)
"Starting off 2025 with a novel this terrific gives me hope for the whole year." -Ron Charles, The Washington Post
"A gorgeous cat's cradle of a book . . . The swirling vapors of Holden Caulfield are present in Playworld, for sure, but also Lolita, Willy Loman, Garp." -Alexandra Jacobs, The New York Times Book Review
"Extraordinary . . . A beguiling ode to a lost era . . . Line for line the book is a revelation." -Leigh Haber, Los Angeles Times
THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE . A big and big-hearted novel-one enthralling, transformative year in the life of a child actor coming of age in a bygone Manhattan, from the critically acclaimed author of Mr. Peanut
"In the fall of 1980, when I was fourteen, a friend of my parents named Naomi Shah fell in love with me. She was thirty-six, a mother of two, and married to a wealthy man. Like so many things that happened to me that year, it didn't seem strange at the time."
Griffin Hurt is in over his head. Between his role as Peter Proton on the hit TV show The Nuclear Family and the pressure of high school at New York's elite Boyd Prep-along with the increasingly compromising demands of his wrestling coach-he's teetering on the edge of collapse.
Then comes Naomi Shah, twenty-two year
ISBN: 9780385351294
Format: Paper over boards
Year: 2025
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Description:
A big and big-hearted novel-one enthralling, transformative year in the life of a child actor coming of age in a bygone Manhattan, from the critically acclaimed author of Mr. Peanut ("A brilliant, powerful, and memorable book" -The New York Times)
"Starting off 2025 with a novel this terrific gives me hope for the whole year." -Ron Charles, The Washington Post
"A gorgeous cat's cradle of a book . . . The swirling vapors of Holden Caulfield are present in Playworld, for sure, but also Lolita, Willy Loman, Garp." -Alexandra Jacobs, The New York Times Book Review
"Extraordinary . . . A beguiling ode to a lost era . . . Line for line the book is a revelation." -Leigh Haber, Los Angeles Times
THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE . A big and big-hearted novel-one enthralling, transformative year in the life of a child actor coming of age in a bygone Manhattan, from the critically acclaimed author of Mr. Peanut
"In the fall of 1980, when I was fourteen, a friend of my parents named Naomi Shah fell in love with me. She was thirty-six, a mother of two, and married to a wealthy man. Like so many things that happened to me that year, it didn't seem strange at the time."
Griffin Hurt is in over his head. Between his role as Peter Proton on the hit TV show The Nuclear Family and the pressure of high school at New York's elite Boyd Prep-along with the increasingly compromising demands of his wrestling coach-he's teetering on the edge of collapse.
Then comes Naomi Shah, twenty-two year