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Half His Age : A Novel.
This fiction debut novel from Jennette McCurdy is about Waldo, a 70-year-old who is impulsive and wanting. And the thing she wants most of all is Mr. Korgy, her creative writing teacher. 'Half His Age' is a sad, funny, thrilling novel about sex, consumerism, class, desire, loneliness, the internet, rage, intimacy, power, and the (oftentimes misguided) lengths well go to in order to get what we want. From the author of 'I'm Glad My Mom Died'.
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- ISBN: 9780385697828
- Physical Description: 240 pages ; 23 cm
- Publisher: Canada : Doubleday Canada, 2026.
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| Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | Library Bound Incorporated |
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| Subject: | FICTION / Coming of Age FICTION / Literary FICTION / Women |
| Genre: | Romance fiction. |
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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Iâm Glad My Mom Died comes a sad, funny, thrilling novel about sex, consumerism, class, desire, loneliness, the internet, rage, intimacy, power, and the (oftentimes misguided) lengths weâll go to in order to get what we want.
Waldo is ravenous. Horny. Blunt. Naive. Wise. Impulsive. Lonely. Angry. Forceful. Hurting. Perceptive. Endlessly wanting. And the thing she wants most of all: Mr. Korgy, her creative writing teacher with the wife and the kid and the mortgage and the bills, with the dead dreams and the atrophied looks and the growing paunch. She doesnât know why she wants him. Is it his passion? His life experience? The fact that he knows books and films and things that she doesnât? Or is it purer than that, rooted in their unlikely connection, their kindred spirits, the similar filter with which they each take in the world around them? Or, perhaps, itâs just enough that he sees her when no one else does.Â
Startlingly perceptive, mordantly funny, and keenly poignant, Half His Age is a rich character study of a yearning seventeen-year-old who disregards all obstaclesâor attempts to overcome themâin her effort to be seen, to be desired, to be loved.
