![]() Though he is accruing accomplishments - he reviews often for an unnamed important literary journal, and he has a lucrative book contract for a novel being published by a prestigious, unnamed publisher - his financial life, as with his romantic life, is unstable. Nate is a Harvard grad, the son of Eastern European immigrants who have high expectations for him. And although the novel is about his love affairs in Brooklyn, this is really a novel that reveals - astutely - how Nate thinks. Despite this crisis of setting, Waldman has an uncanny way of getting into the mind - and cold heart - of Nate. The constant portrayal of Brooklyn in the media has made the New York borough ubiquitous. Adelle Waldman’s debut novel, “The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.,” chronicles just that: Nathaniel Piven’s love affairs. ![]()
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