From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of I’m Glad My Mom Died comes a sad, funny, thrilling novel about sex, consumerism, class, desire, loneliness, the internet, rage, intimacy, power, and the (oftentimes misguided) lengths we’ll go to in order to get what we want. Waldo is ravenous. Horny. Blunt. Naive. Wise. Impulsive. Lonely. Angry. Forceful. Hurting. Perceptive. Endlessly wanting. And the thing she wants most of all: Mr. Korgy, her creative writing teacher with the wife and the kid and the mortgage and the bills, with the dead dreams and the atrophied looks and the growing paunch. She doesn’t know why she wants him. Is it his passion? His life experience? The fact that he knows books and films and things that she doesn’t? Or is it purer than that, rooted in their unlikely connection, their kindred spirits, the similar filter with which they each take in the world around them? Or, perhaps, it’s just enough that he sees her when no one else does. Startlingly perceptive, mordantly funny, and keenly poignant, Half His Age is a rich character study of a yearning seventeen-year-old who disregards all obstacles—or attempts to overcome them—in her effort to be seen, to be desired, to be loved.
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Half His Age
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of I’m Glad My Mom Died comes a sad, funny, thrilling novel about sex, consumerism, class, desire, loneliness, the internet, rage, intimacy, power, and the (oftentimes misguided) lengths we’ll go to in order to get what we want. Waldo is ravenous. Horny. Blunt. Naive. Wise. Impulsive. Lonely. Angry. Forceful. Hurting. Perceptive. Endlessly wanting. And the thing she wants most of all: Mr. Korgy, her creative writing teacher with the wife and the kid and the mortgage and the bills, with the dead dreams and the atrophied looks and the growing paunch. She doesn’t know why she wants him. Is it his passion? His life experience? The fact that he knows books and films and things that she doesn’t? Or is it purer than that, rooted in their unlikely connection, their kindred spirits, the similar filter with which they each take in the world around them? Or, perhaps, it’s just enough that he sees her when no one else does. Startlingly perceptive, mordantly funny, and keenly poignant, Half His Age is a rich character study of a yearning seventeen-year-old who disregards all obstacles—or attempts to overcome them—in her effort to be seen, to be desired, to be loved.
Popular Reviews(15)
Reviewed by TabeaHat mich leider gar nicht gecatcht. Fand den Schreibstil eigentlich ganz toll aber die Story war echt predictable und einfach langweilig. Manchmal war es dann doch ganz okay
Reviewed by leonaNe das fand ich ganz komisch und eklig!
Reviewed by Mari LongfjeldThis is going on my list of favorites, for sure. The book is vulnerable, uncomfortable and hard to put down, but it made my inner teenager feel seen.
Reviewed by Ani BunnySuper Buch! Geile Quotes! Absolut krasse Passagen die ich nie wieder vergessen werden und die mich richtig zum nachdenken gebracht haben. Und sooooi Lustig!!
Reviewed by Mara🌻Es fällt mir schwer, dass Buch zu bewerten. Der Schreibstil an sich war toll. Waldo wollte ich entweder durchgehen schütteln oder einfach nur fest umarmen. Klar ist das eklig, was da passiert. Aber die Einsichten, die Waldo für sich gefunden hat, fand ich richtig und wichtig. Gerade die letzten Seiten haben mir viel gegeben.