Adelle Waldman

The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P

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Impressions

  • Ellen Shubichshared an impression7 years ago

    Nate definitely got on my nerves, especially during his 'relationship' with Hannah. His continuous egocentric self-analysis combined with his interaction with Hannah turned an independent, hopeful young woman into a cornered, unsure,
    tentative, self-doubter while Greer, his next 'act,' enters
    the scenario at evidently 'the right time' to satisfy Nate's
    neurotic nature. Relationship harmony at last!

Quotes

  • Darya Bukhtoyarovahas quoted4 years ago
    Something he’d learned with Elisa: it was not always unpleasant to deal with a hysterical woman. One feels so thoroughly righteous in comparison.
  • Darya Bukhtoyarovahas quoted4 years ago
    The story that followed dated back to childhood. Aurit’s mother, in this telling, had long nursed an idea of herself as very sensible and self-sacrificing and unfrivolous. She propped up her self-image by constantly invoking a comparison between herself and these other women, “who’ve never had a job, who never, ever cook—they hire caterers whenever more than two people come over—who shop all the time, who resent their daughters’ youth, who never read. As a kid, I bought the whole thing. It’s only over time that I started to wonder where all these vapid, lazy, superficial women are. I’ve never encountered anyone quite so bad, let alone an army of such women, except maybe on Dallas. Then I realized the only place they exist is in her head, where they play a very important role. She can justify almost anything she does because she truly, deep-down believes she’s more than entitled to have her ‘modest’ wishes granted, given the extreme and almost unparalleled excellence of her character, relative to other women.”
  • Darya Bukhtoyarovahas quoted4 years ago
    anything to avoid the truth: that over time he had come to see her as overprivileged and underinteresting.

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