He has a six-figure book deal and a growing reputation among Brooklyn’s literati. He is successful, well-groomed and attractive.
On the face of it Nate is a likeable figure. But despite the resemblance between them Waldman’s literary creation is a very dislikable creature: a selfish man lacking the faculty of empathy that is crucial for the novelist he is struggling to become. Like Nate, Waldman worked as an essayist for numerous print and web publications. In The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P., her exquisitely composed debut novel, Adelle Waldman gives us Nathaniel (Nate) Piven, a young novelist obsessed with imagining the feelings and ideas of female characters around him.
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