Zusatztext This first novel by one of America's sharpest journalists is the story of hapless Jewish doctor Toby Fleishman, raising his two children alone and discovering the joys of casual sex after being abandoned by his wife. Although at first we see the world through Toby's eyes, contradictory voices gradually begin to emerge in this cunningly constructed and acidly funny debut. Informationen zum Autor Taffy Brodesser-Akner is a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine . She has also written for GQ, ESPN the Magazine, and many other publications. Fleishman Is in Trouble, her first novel, was a Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller, and was longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction. Long Island Compromise is her second novel. Klappentext The most astonishingly brilliant Trojan horse of a novel' DOLLY ALDERTON'Sharp and wicked, insightful and funny, and then suddenly so touching' DAVID NICHOLLS'This book is a work of utter perfection' ELIZABETH GILBERT'Wonderful, Utterly blistering , , , A wildly entertaining, moving story' MARIAN KEYESFinally free from his nightmare of a marriage, Toby Fleishman is ready for a life of online dating and weekend-only parental duties, But as he optimistically looks to a future that is wildly different from the one he imagined, his life turns upside-down as his ex-wife, Rachel, suddenly disappears,While Toby tries to find out what happened - juggling work, kids and his new, app-assisted sexual popularity - his tidy narrative of a spurned husband is his sole consolation, But if he ever wants to really understand where Rachel went and what really happened to his marriage, he is going to have to consider that he might not have seen it all that clearly in the first place , , ,A BLISTERING SATIRICAL NOVEL ABOUT MARRIAGE, DIVORCE AND MODERN RELATIONSHIPS, BY ONE OF THE MOST EXCITING NEW VOICES IN AMERICAN FICTION'Brimming with wisdom and utterly of this moment , , , Taffy Brodesser-Akner's debut is that rare and delicious treat: a page turner with heft' MARIA SEMPLE '[A] heady cocktail of forensic observation, sardonic wit and cynicism mixed with zeitgest , , , A novel for our times' PANDORA SYKES'It is a Great Novel , , , It has depth, wit, nuance and life, Heartbreaking and funny' NIGELLA LAWSON A BLISTERING SATIRICAL NOVEL ABOUT MARRIAGE, DIVORCE AND MODERN LOVE, BY ONE OF THE MOST EXCITING NEW VOICES IN AMERICAN FICTION Zusammenfassung A BLISTERING SATIRICAL NOVEL ABOUT MARRIAGE, DIVORCE AND MODERN LOVE, BY ONE OF THE MOST EXCITING NEW VOICES IN AMERICAN FICTION...

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A BLISTERING SATIRICAL NOVEL ABOUT MARRIAGE, DIVORCE AND MODERN LOVE, BY ONE OF THE MOST EXCITING NEW VOICES IN AMERICAN FICTION

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Taffy Brodesser-Akner is a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine. She has also written for GQ, ESPN the Magazine, and many other publications. Fleishman Is in Trouble, her first novel, was a Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller, and was longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction. Long Island Compromise is her second novel.

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The most astonishingly brilliant Trojan horse of a novel' DOLLY ALDERTON

'Sharp and wicked, insightful and funny, and then suddenly so touching' DAVID NICHOLLS

'This book is a work of utter perfection' ELIZABETH GILBERT

'Wonderful, Utterly blistering , , , A wildly entertaining, moving story' MARIAN KEYES

Finally free from his nightmare of a marriage, Toby Fleishman is ready for a life of online dating and weekend-only parental duties, But as he optimistically looks to a future that is wildly different from the one he imagined, his life turns upside-down as his ex-wife, Rachel, suddenly disappears,

While Toby tries to find out what happened - juggling work, kids and his new, app-assisted sexual popularity - his tidy narrative of a spurned husband is his sole consolation, But if he ever wants to really understand where Rachel went and what really happened to his marriage, he is going to have to consider that he might not have seen it all that clearly in the first place , , ,

A BLISTERING SATIRICAL NOVEL ABOUT MARRIAGE, DIVORCE AND MODERN RELATIONSHIPS, BY ONE OF THE MOST EXCITING NEW VOICES IN AMERICAN FICTION

'Brimming with wisdom and utterly of this moment , , , Taffy Brodesser-Akner's debut is that rare and delicious treat: a page turner with heft' MARIA SEMPLE

'[A] heady cocktail of forensic observation, sardonic wit and cynicism mixed with zeitgest , , , A novel for our times' PANDORA SYKES

'It is a Great Novel , , , It has depth, wit, nuance and life, Heartbreaking and funny' NIGELLA LAWSON