{"product_id":"the-winner-a-novel-isbn-9780063353596","title":"The Winner: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA \u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/em\u003e \"Top-10 Thriller of the Year\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA \u003cem\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eVogue\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eEsquire\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eElle\u003c\/em\u003e, and Bookshop.org \"Best Book of the Year'\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConor O’Toole has never been anywhere like Cutters Neck, a gated community near Cape Cod. It’s a sweet deal for the summer: in exchange for tennis lessons, he receives free lodging in a luxurious guest cottage, far from the cramped Yonkers apartment he shares with his diabetic mother.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this oceanfront paradise, however, new clients prove hard to come by, and Conor has bills to pay. When Catherine, a sharp-tongued divorcée, offers double his usual rate, he soon realizes she is expecting additional, off the court services for her money, and Conor tumbles into a secret erotic affair unlike anything he’s experienced before.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDespite his steamy flings with a woman twice his age, he simultaneously finds himself falling for an artsy, outspoken girl he meets on the beach. With cautious, strategic planning, Conor somehow manages this tangled web—until he makes one final, irreversible mistake.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA dark, explosive literary thriller that brilliantly skewers the elite, Whiting Award winner Teddy Wayne’s unputdownable novel is cinematic, shocking, and a psychological masterpiece.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e\"Be prepared to fully lose yourself in \u003cem\u003eThe Winner\u003c\/em\u003e—a book I started and then simply couldn't stop reading. Teddy Wayne has written a timely, topical novel that still somehow feels like a classic.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLiz Moore, New York Times bestselling author of Long Bright River\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eThe Winner\u003c\/em\u003e is a lean, careening thrill of a book that kept me awake half the night and away from work the following day. Conor O'Toole's steady embroilment with the wealthy people he teaches tennis to is drawn with exquisite dread. Wayne has a genius for brief observations that reveal whole reams of truth about class, poverty and competition, while also never allowing the hideously compelling story to let up for a moment. Exhilarating, cutting, and funny, \u003cem\u003eThe Winner\u003c\/em\u003e is already one of my favorite books of the year.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMegan Nolan, internationally bestselling author of Acts of Desperation and Ordinary Human Failings\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Readers will zoom through Wayne's…bitingly satirical literary thriller.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Page-turning...Wayne has packaged a literary examination of wealth and privilege as a summer thriller...\u003cem\u003eThe Winner\u003c\/em\u003e delivers another scathing indictment of human nature, even if that means indicting ourselves.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eChicago Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“An acid portrait of life in one of America’s privileged gated enclaves. . . . Class is a subject seldom addressed in contemporary American fiction. . . . Teddy Wayne’s latest makes a welcome contribution to the neglected subject.\"  - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“I read this book so fast my eyes started to burn.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHobart\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“There’s a hint of Tom Ripley in the stylish, smart thriller [and] its inspired take on how money, sex and power can corrupt. . . . \u003cem\u003eThe Winner\u003c\/em\u003e has a creepy Highsmithian placidity, coolly measured while depicting bad things being done and cannily covering up the evidence. . . . \u003cem\u003eThe Winner\u003c\/em\u003e is among Wayne’s best, a savvy take on sex, money and power. . . . He can write a thoughtful novel about moral ambiguity and corruption that’s also a movie-ready page turner, with enough room for a sequel.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[A] gripping high-stakes tale of dangerous liaisons, grand deception, and ruthless ambition…What started out as a sharp comedy of manners about the carefree lives of the careless rich becomes a fast-paced psychological drama with hidden depths and dark undercurrents…an exhilarating reading experience.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWashington Examiner\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA Best Book of the Year: \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker and Vogue\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Conor O’Toole is a fascinating character...Teddy Wayne has created a real dark gem...\u003cem\u003eThe Winner \u003c\/em\u003eserves, dinks, and backhands up a scathing satire, where entitlement and privilege get caught in its own playful, libidinous, and morally ambiguous net.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eVol. 1 Brooklyn\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Wayne has a pitch-perfect understanding of this tiny slice of American privilege, and also a sense of what might happen to a deeply admirable character whose strong moral code is severely tested by circumstance. I was reminded at various times of “The Great Gatsby,” “The Talented Mr. Ripley” and, in a different way, “The Graduate.” All those books filled me with unease. This one made me feel beside myself with anxiety.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSarah Lyall for The New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Over the last decade and a half, Teddy Wayne has emerged as a writer willing to reckon with some of the biggest issues facing the nation.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eInsideHook\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Seductive . . . consistently fun. . . . This is \u003cem\u003eThe Graduate\u003c\/em\u003e with an advanced degree. Wayne’s plot was made to gallop, and it does not disappoint. I read \u003cem\u003eThe Winner\u003c\/em\u003e in two nights. It’s not just the sex that’s provocative; it’s the way the reader is steadily pulled into Conor’s dilemma. . . . I’d judge Wayne on his easy access to the immoral and amoral, but given my own voracious consumption of this book, better to stay off my high horse.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Propulsive, winning...\u003cem\u003eThe Winner\u003c\/em\u003e’s pace never slackens…Wayne...writes on male alienation as well as any contemporary American novelist.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Mars Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A palm-sweating thrill ride”  - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEsquire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A summer among the Massachusetts elite introduces a young law student to a life and temptations he hadn’t imagined...The novelist expertly inserts himself inside Conor’s psyche...A novel that puts a fresh twist on getting what you deserve.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A page-turning story of sex, power, and money.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eThe Winner\u003c\/em\u003e is a harrowing romp through the bedrooms of the rich and entitled. Teddy Wayne takes us behind the gates of a super-exclusive community, an enclave of grotesque wealth where everyone gets what they want—with disastrous consequences. A gripping, provocative, and delightfully shocking novel.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNathan Hill, New York Times bestselling author of Wellness\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e A \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e \"Best Thriller of the Year\" * An \u003cem\u003eLa Times\u003c\/em\u003e \"Book to Add to Your Reading List\" * A \u003cem\u003eTown \u0026amp; Country \"\u003c\/em\u003eBest Book to Read\" * A \u003cem\u003eNew York Post\u003c\/em\u003e \"Books that are Absolute Must-Reads\" * An \u003cem\u003eEsquire \u003c\/em\u003eBook Club selection * A \u003cem\u003eBoston Globe \u003c\/em\u003e\"Book We're Most Excited to Read This Summer\" * A Lit Hub \"Most Anticipated Book\" * An Inside Hook \"Book You Should Be Reading\" * A Tertulia \"Best Crime Novel and Thriller\" * A \u003cem\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/em\u003e \"Best Thriller\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A riveting novel about how to have the rich and eat them, too. Sexy, breathless, and brutal.”  - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJulia May Jonas, author of Vladimir\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A terrific noir thriller. . . . Comparisons to \u003cem\u003eThe Graduate\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Talented Mr. Ripley \u003c\/em\u003eare inevitable. But \u003cem\u003eThe Winner\u003c\/em\u003e, which has some very canny things to say about class and privilege, owes its biggest debt to Theodore Dreiser. This is \u003cem\u003eAn American Tragedy \u003c\/em\u003ediabolically turned on its head.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44890641236197,"sku":"NP9780063353596","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780063353596.jpg?v=1730233747","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-winner-a-novel-isbn-9780063353596","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}