Speedboat City Planning & Urban Development has a claim to being

has a claim to being regarded as one of the ten most consequential works of fiction produced in [the twentieth] century

a young woman and her boyfriend disappear after partying at the massive country estate of a new college friend

McCarthy focuses his gaze on that singular moment in time

a Mercedes

Speedboat City Planning & Urban Development has a claim to being"It has been more than thirty five years since Renata Adlers Speedboat charged through the literary establishment, blasting genre walls and pointing the way for a newly liberated way of writing. This unclassifiable work is simultaneously novel, memoir, commonplace book, confession, and critique. It is the story of every man and woman cursed with too much consciousness and too little comprehension, and it is the story of Jen Fein, a journalist