Title:: [[Speedboat]] Authors:: [[Renata Adler]] Tags:: #fiction Read:: [[2025-12-28]] Instagram :: https://www.instagram.com/p/DS0R_UGjsYL/ ## Editions - Edition:: [[New York Review of Books (NYRB)]] 2013 - Original Copyright:: 1971 - Pages:: 177 ## Purchase * Bookshop.org:: https://bookshop.org/a/94437/9781590176139 ## Cover Photo `` ## Annotations A book that never becomes anything; all parts, no whole. Stripped of Adler’s wit and sharp observation, it would collapse into nothingness. Even with them, it remains a book of scenes and glimpses, loosely tethered to people and places. That it feels like anything is credit to Adler. Liked Pitch Dark more.