A review by encyclopedia
Speedboat by Renata Adler

it's been a while since i read a book that i instantly knew would exert an influence on me—something i liked in a way that made me want to emulate it in my own work. speedboat is that. it's a political novel about sociality. it locates the creation of political and ideological meaning in fumbling miscommunications between people. it's impressionistic but immensely observant. it's deeply linked to the mid-70s but so weirdly prescient; it's rare that fiction from and about the past gives me better insight into why we are the way we are today. this is also a great book to pair with rick pearlstein's reaganland, which effectively picks up the year speedboat was published. the unraveling discontent of speedboat crescendoes in reaganland, culminating in the rise of american conservatism as we know it today.

anyway, i'm rambling because i'm tired but def check this out! especially if u are american and have gone to school too much. u will be like woah. renata knew