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Apartment

Written by: Teddy Wayne
Narrated by: Mark Chavez
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 Bloomsbury presents Apartment by Teddy Wayne, read by Mark Chavez.

A New York Times Editors Choice
Longlisted for the 2020 Simpson / Joyce Carol Oates Literary Prize
One of Vogue.com’s “Best Books of 2020 So Far”
One of Elle’s “Best Books of 2020 So Far”

Named A Most-Anticipated Book by The New York Times, Vogue, The Boston Globe, Salon,
The Millions, Inside Hook, and Vol. 1 Brooklyn

In 1996, the unnamed narrator of Teddy Wayne’s Apartment is attending the MFA writing program at Columbia on his father’s dime and living in an illegal sublet of a rent-stabilized apartment. Feeling guilty about his good fortune, he offers his spare bedroom—rent-free—to Billy, a talented, charismatic classmate from the Midwest eking out a hand-to-mouth existence in Manhattan.

The narrator’s rapport with Billy develops into the friendship he’s never had due to a lifetime of holding people at arm’s length, hovering at the periphery, feeling “fundamentally defective.” But their living arrangement, not to mention their radically different upbringings, breeds tensions neither man could predict. Interrogating the origins of our contemporary political divide and its ties to masculinity and class, Apartment is a gutting portrait of one of New York’s many lost, disconnected souls by a writer with an uncommon aptitude for embodying them.©2020 Teddy Wayne (P)2020 Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Coming of Age Friendship Literary Fiction

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Bad narration; great story

Have you ever had roommate/flatmate?

"Sometimes the only way to start over in life is to burn down the house"

People are seldom wo we think they are. Hell, we are seldom what we think we are. Impulse decisions or even long-term thought out decisions sometimes tend to surprise us. 'Why did I do this' is a question I ask myself on a daily basis.

'Apartment' is the story of our unnamed narrator who feels ashamed of his privilege and decides to share it with his friend Billy, who he met in a writing workshop. Over time, they did what most us do with our relationships; they fell apart.

This book us an insightful study into the personalities of our two protagonists, and how once cherished friendships can turn into two enstranged people, a phase no one can ever move on from.

It tackles the problem of compulsory masculinity and unacceptable queerness, both of which are huge and impending. Highly realistic, this story is pretty much the life of most people we overlook.

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