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The Amateur

The New York Times bestseller - 'Sharply funny, beautifully told' Claire Leslie Hall

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The Amateur

Di: Chris Bohjalian
Letto da: Melora Hardin
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1978. In the sleepy New York suburb of Tallmadge, eighteen-year-old Mira Winston is beguiling, talented, and full of youthful recklessness. She spends her summer perfecting her swing at her parents’ country club – and continuing her long-running affair with her father’s golf buddy, a married man twice her age.

Then, one August afternoon, a freak accident occurs, and Mira’s classmate Kenny is killed. In the days and years that follow, the events of that day become inextricably tied to the choices she has made – with devastating, unpredictable consequences for her family, her neighbours and friends, and Mira herself.

She is forced to ask: what happens when one small moment – the swing of a golf club, a stolen kiss, a hastily written note – changes the course of an entire life?

Mesmerizing and darkly funny, The Amateur unravels against a backdrop of white-picket-fenced streets, university dorm rooms, smoke-filled restaurants, and elegant country clubs. Turning a sharp eye to the American middle class, it is a hypnotic tale of power, morality, and the weight of blame.

'Sharply funny, beautifully told and so moving on the way life can upend itself in a single moment. I adored it’ CLARE LESLIE HALL, author of BROKEN COUNTRY

'Impossible to put down' GILLIAN McALLISTER, author of WRONG PLACE WRONG TIME

© Chris Bohjalian 2026 (P) Penguin Audio 2026

Narrativa di genere Narrativa letteraria Narrativa storica Romanzo di formazione XX secolo
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Recensioni della critica

THE AMATEUR is a joyous novel with an unforgettable narrator who will break your heart. It is sharply funny, beautifully told and so moving on the way life can upend itself in a single moment. I adored it (CLARE LESLIE HALL, author of BROKEN COUNTRY)
Impossible to put down (GILLIAN McALLISTER)
This sophisticated literary thriller scrutinises the peeling paint of picket-fence America
Dazzles as it devastates . . . turns over weighty subjects - sexual abuse, post-traumatic stress, familial dysfunction - with grace and wry humour. It’s a masterpiece
It’s hard to think of any reason not to call this a perfect novel . . . Nabokov’s classic reinvented as a 1970s moral fable, with brilliantly developed characters and period detail.
Bohjalian demonstrates timely and empathic socially conscious bravery as he confronts the inherent imbalance of power in such situations and illuminates the devastating impact of such exploitation
Effortless, emotional, gripping, and the most propulsive novel I've read in ages (Jenny Jackson)
A gripping read
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