The Winner

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A razor-sharp novel that skewers the life of the uber-rich in the vein of The White Lotus, with shades of The Talented Mr Ripley and The Graduate
Conor is a recent graduate from a law school no one has heard of. Without any job prospects and needing to support his chronically ill mother, he takes a summer job teaching tennis at the affluent gated community of Cutters Neck, Massachusetts. One of his first students is Catherine, a magnetic divorce keen to hire him for more than advice on her serve. What begins as a transactional arrangement soon develops into an intoxicating sexual relationship.

Things become even more complicated when Conor encounters Emily, with whom he has his first taste of real intimacy. Against his better judgment, he soon finds himself living a double life that inevitably leads to disaster.

Conor knows how hard it is to win against those with money and power. In his fight for survival, he has to put emotion aside and play with only his wits after all, in tennis, love means nothing

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Praise for Teddy Wayne:

Teddy Wayne has an uncanny ability to teleport to another location and inhabit the people who live there Wayne skillfully shows us every disturbing and obsessive moment tightly written, tensely memorable Meg Wolitzer

One of those uncommon novels that really is novel Jonathan Franzen

The rare page-turner that always maintains its dignity as a moving portrait of loneliness and longing Joshua Ferris

Affecting, timely, and frequently hilarious Vanity Fair

Wildly inventive and disturbing Esquire

Waynes writing is spiky and electricit reminded me of the early work of Jeffrey Eugenides The New York Times Book Review

Subtle, fascinating. . . Wayne excels at creating a narrator both observant of his surroundings and deluded about his own feelings . . . A careful meditation on class and power Publishers Weekly

A spectacular stylist, Wayne is deeply empathetic toward his characters, butbrutally and brilliantlyhe refuses to either defend or excuse them a novel as absorbing as it is devastating Kirkus Reviews

A sharp, funny novel Wayne is an inheritor, too, of Vonnegut's style-winkingly funny, brisk, broadly satirical LA Times

The genius is hard to miss Los Angeles Review of Books

At a moment when so many young writers want to join the ranks of the angels, Wayne's unfashionable wit, bitterness, and tight focus are a gift The Paris Review

There's perhaps no living writer better at chronicling the most crucial emotional flash points of the young modern male than Teddy Wayne The A.V. Club

Teddy Wayne has written one of the best novels of my generation The Boston Globe

Brilliantly terrifying Teddy Wayne has written a masterclass on the privilege found in white male narcissism Electric Literature

Author Bio

Teddy Wayne is the winner of a Whiting Writers Award and an NEA Writing Fellowship, among other honours. Hes a former New York Times columnist and is a regular contributor to the New Yorker. He lives in Brooklyn with his family.