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'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 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 Prepalong with the increasingly compromising demands of his wrestling coachhe's teetering on the edge of collapse. Then comes Naomi Shah, twenty-two years Griffin's senior. Unwilling to lay his burdens on his shrinkwhom he shares with his father, mother, and younger brother, OrenGriffin soon finds himself in the back of Naomi's Mercedes sedan, again and again, confessing all to the one person who might do him the most harm. Less a bildungsroman than a story of miseducation, Playworld is a novel of epic proportions, bursting with laughter and heartache. Adam Ross immerses us in the life of Griffin and his loving (yet disintegrating) family while seeming to evoke the entirety of Manhattan and the ethos of an erawith Jimmy Carter on his way out and a B-list celebrity named Ronald Reagan on his way in. Surrounded by adults who embody the age's excessesand who seem to care little about what their children are up toGriffin is left to himself to find the line between youth and maturity, dependence and love, acting and truly grappling with life.
ADAM ROSS is the author of Mr. Peanut, which was selected as one of the best books of the year by the New York Times, New Yorker, and Economist. He has been a fellow in fiction at the American Academy in Berlin and a Hodder Fellow for Fiction at Princeton University. He is editor of The Sewanee Review. Born and raised in New York City, he now lives in Nashville, Tennessee, with his two daughters.
