{"id":146320,"date":"2025-01-14T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=146320"},"modified":"2025-01-12T13:36:42","modified_gmt":"2025-01-12T19:36:42","slug":"square-books-welcomes-author-adam-ross-for-playworld-friday-january-17-2025-at-530-pm-off-square-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/square-books-welcomes-author-adam-ross-for-playworld-friday-january-17-2025-at-530-pm-off-square-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Square Books Welcomes Author Adam Ross for “Playworld”\u00a0Friday, January 17, 2025 at 5:30 pm Off Square Books\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Author Adam Ross in conversation for Playworld<\/em>, a story of miseducation set in a bygone Manhattan.\u00a0<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

About the book\u00a0<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn the fall of 1980, when I was fourteen, a friend of my parents\u00a0named Naomi Shah fell in love with me. She was thirty-six, a mother\u00a0of two, and married to a wealthy man. Like so many things that\u00a0happened to me that year, it didn\u2019t seem strange at the time.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Griffin Hurt is in over his head. Between his role as Peter Proton on\u00a0the hit TV show The Nuclear Family and the pressure of high school\u00a0at New York’s elite Boyd Prep\u2014along with the increasingly\u00a0compromising demands of his wrestling coach\u2014he’s teetering on\u00a0the edge of collapse.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then comes Naomi Shah, twenty-two years Griffin\u2019s senior.\u00a0Unwilling to lay his burdens on his shrink\u2014whom he shares with his\u00a0father, mother, and younger brother, Oren\u2014Griffin soon finds himself\u00a0in the back of Naomi\u2019s Mercedes sedan, again and again,\u00a0confessing all to the one person who might do him the most harm.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less a bildungsroman than a story of miseducation, Playworld <\/em>is a novel of epic proportions, bursting with laughter and heartache. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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About the author\u00a0<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Adam Ross is the author of Mr. Peanut<\/em>, which was selected as one of the best books of the year by The New York Times<\/em>, The New Yorker<\/em>, and The Economist<\/em>. He has been a fellow in fiction at the American Academy in Berlin and a Hodder Fellow for Fiction at Princeton University. He is editor of The Sewanee Review<\/em>. Born and raised in New York City, he now lives in Nashville, Tennessee, with his two daughters. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Playworld\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>
By Adam Ross\u00a0
$29.00\u00a0
Publisher: Knopf\u00a0
ISBN: 9780385351294\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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