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The Falconer

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The Falconer by Dana Czapnik is a coming-of-age story set in 1990s New York City, following Lucy Adler, a basketball-loving seventeen-year-old. Lucy navigates her friendships, unrequited love, and the complex city around her, all while grappling with societal expectations and her own dreams. The novel captures the vibrancy and challenges of adolescence with a keen eye for detail and authenticity.
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This book may appeal to you if you enjoy coming-of-age stories set in vibrant cities, exploring themes of ambition, identity, and self-discovery. With its 1990s New York City backdrop, it offers a nostalgic look at teenage life and the pursuit of dreams, making it an engaging read for those interested in character-driven narratives that blend humour and poignancy.

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The Falconer

Dana Czapnik's debut, a 1990s New York-set novel of love, basketball, art, feminism and youthful dreams, is a new coming-of-age classic.

Dana Czapnik's debut, a 1990s New York-set novel of love, basketball, art, feminism and youthful dreams, is a new coming-of-age classic.

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'A novel of huge heart and fierce intelligence.' - Ann Patchett

'An electric debut' - New York Times

'Exhilarating' - Claire Messud

'Deeply affecting' - Salman Rushdie

A new coming-of-age classic, an early '90s New York-set novel of love, basketball, art, and feminism.

Seventeen-year-old Lucy Adler, a street-smart, trash-talking baller, is often the only girl on the public 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 pick-up teammate Percy, son of a prominent New York family who is trying to resist his upper crust fate.

As Lucy questions accepted notions of success, bristling against her own hunger for male approval, she is drawn into the world of a pair of provocative female artists living in what remains of New York's bohemia.

In her hit US debut, Dana Czapnik memorably captures the voice of a young woman in the first flush of freedom searching for an authentic way to live and love.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780571355938

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 August 2019

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Faber & Faber

Edition: Main

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 16.0mm

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 197.0mm

Weight: 231g

Pages: 288

About the Author

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. A native New Yorker, she lives in Manhattan with her husband and son.

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