The Falconer A literary page turner brimming with intelligence energy and wit centered on an unforgettable young heroine that will thrill readers of all generations Colum McCann New York Seventeen year ol
A literary page turner brimming with intelligence, energy, and wit, centered on an unforgettable young heroine that will thrill readers of all generations Colum McCann.New York, 1993 Seventeen year old Lucy Adler, a street smart, trash talking baller, is often the only girl on the public courts At turns quixotic and cynical, insecure and self possessed, Lucy is in un A literary page turner brimming with intelligence, energy, and wit, centered on an unforgettable young heroine that will thrill readers of all generations Colum McCann.New York, 1993 Seventeen year old Lucy Adler, a street smart, trash talking baller, is often the only girl on the public courts At turns quixotic and cynical, insecure and self possessed, Lucy is in unrequited love with her best friend and pick up teammate Percy, scion to a prominent New York family, who wishes to resist his upper crust fate As she navigates this complex relationship with all its youthful heartache, Lucy is seduced by a different kind of life one less consumed by conventional success and the approval of men A pair of provocative female artists living in what remains of New York s bohemia invite her into their world, but soon even their paradise begins to show cracks Told in vibrant, quicksilver prose, The Falconer is a wholly original coming of age story Chloe Benjamin, New York Times bestselling author of The Immortalists , providing a snapshot of the city and America through the eyes of the children of the baby boomers grappling with privilege and the fading of radical hopes New York Times bestselling author Claire Messud calls The Falconer an exhilarating debut, adding that Dana Czapnik s frank heroine has a voice, and a perspective, you won t soon forget Get A Copy Kindle Store Stor
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Dana Czapnik is a 2018 NYSCA NYFA Artist Fellow in Fiction from The New York Foundation for the Arts In 2017, she was awarded an Emerging Writers Fellowship from the Center for Fiction Czapnik earned her MFA at Hunter College where she was recognized with a Hertog Fellowship She s spent most of her career on the editorial side of professional sports including stints at ESPN the Magazine, the Un Dana Czapnik is a 2018 NYSCA NYFA Artist Fellow in Fiction from The New York Foundation for the Arts In 2017, she was awarded an Emerging Writers Fellowship from the Center for Fiction Czapnik earned her MFA at Hunter College where she was recognized with a Hertog Fellowship She s spent most of her career on the editorial side of professional sports including stints at ESPN the Magazine, the United States Tennis Association and the Arena Football League Her debut novel, The Falconer, will be published by Atria Books, an imprint of Simon Schuster, in January of 2019 A native New Yorker, she lives in Manhattan with her husband and son