![]() ![]() While his intelligence and background (his parents are immigrants) make him stand out from the crowd, his pure ass-ery sticks him in the same round peg as almost every other man. He recently received a book offer to get his book published, and before that he was a columnist, book reviewer and temp worker in New York City. Waldman creates a simultaneously unique and common character in Nate. It’s an interesting twist on romance that brings a different perspective to the table, especially if you’re a woman. ![]() Waldman looks into the male psyche to determine why and how men lose interest in their partners. The story follows the New York writer Nate in his tumultuous relationships with New York women, but it really focuses on one relationship, which I won’t divulge in interest of keeping the book a mystery. If you want a summation of The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. by Adelle Waldman, that quote right there does it. The affliction of shallow morons everywhere.” But to me, it looks like the most tired, the most average thing in the world, the guy who is all interested in a woman until the very moment when it dawns on him that he has her. ![]() “I feel like you want to think what you’re feeling is really deep, like some seriously profound existential shit. Would recommend to: anyone dealing with a break-up looking for perspective. Quotation: “Dating is probably the most fraught human interaction there is.” ![]()
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