Half His Age (Canadian Signed Edition): A Novel

AN INSTANT INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER and NATIONAL BESTSELLER. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of I¡¯m Glad My Mom Died comes a sad, funny, thrilling novel about sex, consumerism, class, desire, loneliness, the internet, rage, intimacy, power, and the (oftentimes misguided) lengths we¡¯ll go to in order to get what we want.Waldo is ravenous. Horny. Blunt. Naive. Wise. Impulsive. Lonely. Angry. Forceful. Hurting. Perceptive. Endlessly wanting. And the thing she wants most of all: Mr. Korgy, her creative writing teacher 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 doesn¡¯t know why she wants him. Is it his passion His life experience The fact that he knows books and films and things that she doesn¡¯t Or is it purer than that, rooted in their unlikely connection, their kindred spirits, the similar filter with which they each take in the world around them Or, perhaps, it¡¯s just enough that he sees her when no one else does.Startlingly perceptive, mordantly funny, and keenly poignant, Half His Age is a rich character study of a yearning seventeen-year-old who disregards all obstacles¡ªor attempts to overcome them¡ªin her effort to be seen, to be desired, to be loved.