02067cam a2200325 4500 759734290 TxAuBib 20210513120000.0 210506s2020||||||||||||d|||||||||||eng|u 2020934223 9781432879976 lg. print : alk. paper 1432879979 lg. print : alk. paper KyBuM KyBuM TxGR TxAuBib Wayne, Teddy. Apartment [Large Type Book] / Teddy Wayne. Large print ed. [Farmington Hills, Mich : Thorndike Press/Gale, 2020. 287 p. (large print) ; 23 cm. Thorndike Press large print Bill's bookshelf "In 1996, the unnamed narrator of Teddy Wayne's Apartment is attending the MFA writing program at Columbia on his father's dime and living in an illegal sublet of a rent-stabilized apartment. Feeling guilty about his good fortune, he offers his spare bedroom--rent-free--to Billy, a talented, charismatic classmate from the Midwest eking out a hand-to-mouth existence in Manhattan. The narrator's rapport with Billy develops into the friendship he's never had due to a lifetime of holding people at arm's length, hovering at the periphery, feeling 'fundamentally defective.' But their living arrangement, not to mention their radically different upbringings, breeds tensions neither man could predict. Interrogating the origins of our contemporary political divide and its ties to masculinity and class, Apartment is a gutting portrait of one of New York's many lost, disconnected souls by a writer with an uncommon aptitude for embodying them"--Provided by the publisher. 20210513. Male friendship Fiction. Loneliness Fiction. Apartments Fiction. Roommates Fiction. New York (N.Y) Fiction. Bildungsromans. Thorndike Press large print Bill's bookshelf. RV8