The Falconer - by Dana Czapnik (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>A <i>New York Times</i> Editor's Choice Pick </b> <p/><b>"A novel of huge heart and fierce intelligence. It has restored my faith in pretty much everything." --Ann Patchett, #1 <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>Commonwealth</i></b> <p/><b>"[An] electric debut novel...Reader, beware: Spending time with Lucy is unapologetic fun, and heartbreak, and awe as well." --Chloe Malle, <i>The New York Times Book Review </i></b> <p/><b>In this "frank, bittersweet coming-of-age story that crackles with raw adolescent energy, fresh-cut prose, and a kinetic sense of place" (<i>Entertainment Weekly</i>), a teenaged tomboy explores love, growing up, and New York City in the early 1990s. </b> <p/>New York, 1993. Street-smart seventeen-year-old Lucy Adler is often the only girl on the public basketball courts. Lucy's inner life is a contradiction. She's by turns quixotic and cynical, insecure and self-possessed, and, despite herself, is in unrequited love with her best friend and pickup teammate, Percy, the rebellious son of a prominent New York family. <p/>As Lucy begins to question accepted notions of success, bristling against her own hunger for male approval, she is drawn into the world of a pair of provocative feminist artists living in what remains of New York's bohemia. <p/>Told with wit and pathos, <i>The Falconer</i> is at once a novel of ideas, a portrait of a time and place, and an ode to the obsessions of youth. In her critically acclaimed debut, Dana Czapnik captures the voice of an unforgettable modern literary heroine, a young woman in the first flush of freedom.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Coming-of-age in Manhattan may not have been done this brilliantly since <i>Catcher in the Rye. . . . </i>Get ready to fall in love." <p/> <b><i>--</i></b><i><b>Kirkus </b></i><b>(starred review)</b> <p/> "Smart, tough, an extraordinary athlete, Lucy Adler teeters, zealous and baffled, on the cusp of womanhood. Dana Czapnik's frank heroine has a voice, and a perspective, you won't soon forget. <i>The Falconer </i>is an exhilarating debut." <p/> <b><i>--</i></b><b>Claire Messud</b>, <b>author of <i>The Burning Girl</i> and <i>The Woman Upstairs</i></b> <p/> "A deeply affecting tale of a young woman coming of age in a man's world. All the characters feel authentic and unique, and its protagonist, Lucy Adler, jumps right off the page. I've never read a character quite like her in fiction - a deeply intelligent basketball player with a sharp, incisive take on the changing city and country in which she lives. Lucy's journey into adulthood will be especially resonant with today's readers." <p/> <b><i>--</i></b><b>Salman Rushdie, author of <i>The Golden House</i> and <i>Midnight's Children</i></b> <p/> "An unsentimental education in all that is urgent, soulful and intimate. As much the portrait of an era as it is the portrait of an adolescence, this is a crossover novel that will thrill readers of all generations. <i>The Falconer</i> captures the grueling, exhilarating pathos of one woman's quest to become whole. A wonderful debut." <p/> <b><i>--</i></b><b>Colum McCann, author of <i>Thirteen Ways of Looking </i>and <i>Let The Great World Spin</i></b> <p/> "<i>The Falconer</i> is a novel of huge heart and fierce intelligence. It has restored my faith in pretty much everything." <p/> <b><i>--</i>Ann Patchett, #1 <i>New York Times </i>bestselling author of <i>Commonwealth </i>and co-owner of Parnassus Books</b> <p/> "Meet Lucy Adler. As I read <i>The Falconer</i>, I felt like I'd found a literary cousin of Holden Caulfield--if Holden were a straight-shooting, hip-hop-listening, court-dominating, seventeen-year-old Jewish-Italian girl. Dana Czapnik has crafted a wholly original coming-of-age story. In basketball terms, <i>The Falconer</i> is a fearless three-point shot." <p/> <b><i>--</i></b><b>Chloe Benjamin, author of <i>The Immortalists</i> and <i>The Anatomy of Dreams</i></b> <p/> "Told with a poet's ear and a basketball player's eye and reflexes, The Falconer is an extraordinary book. Czapnik is refreshingly honest and open-eyed about the way money, gender and the demands of the body steer the overwhelming longings and frustrations of being a young woman growing up in the city. Every detail feels true and important, every small observation tells a larger story. A wonderful new talent." <p/> <b><i>--</i></b><b>Rivka Galchen, author of <i>Atmospheric Disturbances </i>and <i>American Innovations</i></b><br>
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