Synopses & Reviews
In her sizzling new novel, Tama Janowitz moves beyond the world of the single woman (
Slaves of New York, A Certain Age), and now targets a young woman growing ever restless in her marriage, and ever hopeful that the next bed will produce someone more exciting. As she moves from man to man, Peyton Amberg slowly but surely loses her youthfulness, her good looks, even her sanity, as her paramours become rougher and the sex more dangerous.
A savvy riff on the classic figure of Madam Bovary, Peyton Amberg is a caustic and brilliant satire of contemporary marriage as it is undermined by free-floating lust and exploits of a woman yearning for fulfillment outside of rigid societal structure.
Peyton Amberg is nasty, funny, jaundiced, sarcastic, searingly honest, and mesmerizing from beginning to end.
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"Janowitz's trademark mix of humor and gross-out realism give the novel a queasy charge." Publishers Weekly
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"Occasional flashes of humor...but overall dreary and joyless: those sexcapades aside, the novel is permeated by a disgust for the body..." Kirkus Reviews
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"Janowitz's eye for the sordid detail is as merciless as ever." Booklist
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The new novel by the bestselling author of Slaves of New York whose chronicles capture the true grit and spirit of urban women. Peyton Amberg is nasty, funny, sarcastic, searingly honest, and mesmerizing from beginning to end.
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Praise for Tama Janowitz:
"A singular talent."
--Jay McInerney
"A true original with an eye for quirky detail . . . Janowitz's lean, satirical vignettes put her in the stylistic company of Fran Lebowitz and Jay McInerney."
--San Francisco Chronicle
"Funny, reflective . . . wonderfully sharp."
--The Washington Post
"Tama Janowitz has been on the cover of New York magazine, on The Today Show, on the arm of Andy Warhol . . . Tama Janowitz is sizzling."
--The Dallas Morning News
"The razzmatazz is justified. . . Janowitz delivers."
--St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"Janowitz is a fearless writer."
--New York Magazine
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"One of the funniest books I have read, and the bleakest . . . This is a novel about class and sex in America, raw, rude, upsetting, and immensely invigorating."
- Fay Weldon, writing for The Guardian (U.K.)
"A no-hold barred take on the international romps of a modern-day Madame Bovary."
- Publishers Weekly
"A writer of considerable talent."
- The New York Observer
"A penetrating eye."
- New York magazine
About the Author
Tama Janowitz exploded into the literary scene in 1986 with her second book, the
New York Times bestselling
The Slaves of New York. She has received two National Endowment for the Arts awards for fiction and the Alfred Hodder Fellowship in the Humanities from Princeton University. Her work has been published in
The New Yorker, The Paris Review and the
New York Times Magazine and has been translated into twenty languages.
Peyton Amberg is her ninth book and a collection of her non-fiction is forthcoming from St. Martin's Press. Tama Janowitz lives in Brooklyn with her husband and daughter.