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Half His Age
A Novel
Brief Description
Waldo is ravenous. Horny. Blunt. Naive. Wise. Impulsive. Lonely. Angry. Hurting. Endlesslywanting. And the thing she wants most of all? Mr. Korgy, her creative writing teacher.Mr Korgy, with the wife and the kid and the mortgage and the bills, with the dead dreamsand the atrophied looks...
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See moreThe highly anticipated, funny, sad, thrilling novel about sex, class, desire, and power β and the (often misguided) lengths weβll go to to get what we want, from Jennette McCurdy, the three-million copy, Sunday Times bestselling author of I'm Glad My Mom Died.
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Description
Waldo is ravenous. Horny. Blunt. Naive. Wise. Impulsive. Lonely. Angry. Hurting. Endlessly
wanting. And the thing she wants most of all? Mr. Korgy, her creative writing teacher.
Mr Korgy, with the wife and the kid and the mortgage and the bills, with the dead dreams
and the atrophied looks and the growing paunch. She doesnβt know why she wants him. Is it
his passion? His life experience? The fact that he knows books and films that she doesnβt? Or
are they actually kindred spirits, sharing the same filter with which they each take in the
world around them? Or, perhaps, itβs just enough that he sees her when no one else does.
Startlingly perceptive, mordantly funny, and keenly poignant, Half His Age is an incisive
study of a yearning seventeen-year-old who disregards all obstacles in her effort to be seen,
to be desired and to be loved.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780008617691
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 28 January 2026
Imprint: Ballantine Books
DIMENSIONS
Weight: 270g
Pages: 304
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About the Author
Jennette McCurdy starred in Nickelodeonβs hit show iCarly and its spin-off, Sam & Cat, as well as in the Netflix series Between. In 2017, she quit acting and began pursuing writing/directing. Her films have been featured in the Florida Film Festival, the Salute Your Shorts Film Festival, Short of the Week, and elsewhere. Her essays have appeared in HuffPost and The Wall Street Journal. Her one-woman show Iβm Glad My Mom Died had two sold-out runs at the Lyric Hyperion Theatre and Hudson Theatre in Los Angeles. She hosts a podcast called Empty Inside, which has topped Appleβs charts and features guests speaking about uncomfortable topics. She lives in Los Angeles.
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