The Winner
The Winner
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Author: Teddy Wayne
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) | Thriller / suspense
Published on 6th June 2024 by HarperCollins Publishers (The Borough Press) in the United Kingdom.
Hardback | 368 pages
240mm x 159mm | 270g
A razor-sharp novel that skewers the life of the uber-rich in the vein of The White Lotus, with shades of The Talented Mr Ripley and The Graduate
'A gripping, provocative, and delightfully shocking novel’ Nathan Hill
Conor is a recent graduate from a law school no one has heard of. Without any job prospects and needing to support his chronically ill mother, he takes a summer job teaching tennis at the affluent gated community of Cutters Neck, Massachusetts. One of his first students is Catherine, a magnetic divorcée keen to hire him for more than advice on her serve. What begins as a transactional arrangement soon develops into an intoxicating sexual relationship.
Things become even more complicated when Conor encounters Emily, with whom he has his first taste of real intimacy. Against his better judgment, he soon finds himself living a double life that inevitably leads to disaster.
Conor knows how hard it is to win against those with money and power. In his fight for survival, he has to put emotion aside and play with only his wits – after all, in tennis, love means nothing.
