The Winner

'A lean, careening thrill of a book which kept me awake half the night and away from work the following day. Conor O'Toole's steady embroilment with the wealthy people he teaches tennis to is drawn with exquisite dread. Wayne has a genius for brief observations which reveal whole reams of truth about class, poverty, and competition, while also never allowing the hideously compelling story to let up for a moment. Exhilarating, cutting, and funny, The Winner is already one of my favourite books of the year' Megan Nolan ‘A timely, topical novel that still somehow feels like a classic’ Liz Moore, New York Times bestselling author of Long Bright River 'A riveting novel about how to have the rich and eat them, too. Sexy, breathless, and brutal' Julia May Jonas, author of Vladimir ‘The Winner is a harrowing romp through the bedrooms of the rich and entitled. A gripping, provocative, and delightfully shocking novel’ Nathan Hill, New York Times bestselling author of The Nix ‘No one writes male characters (and their flaws) like Teddy Wayne’ LitHub Praise for Teddy Wayne: ‘Teddy Wayne has an uncanny ability to teleport to another location and inhabit the people who live there… Wayne skillfully shows us every disturbing and obsessive moment’ Meg Wolitzer ‘One of those uncommon novels that really is novel’ Jonathan Franzen ‘Wayne’s writing is spiky and electric…it reminded me of the early work of Jeffrey Eugenides’ The New York Times Book Review ‘The genius is hard to miss’ Los Angeles Review of Books ‘Brilliantly terrifying… Teddy Wayne has written a masterclass on the privilege found in white male narcissism’ Electric Literature