Overview

The highly anticipated, funny, sad, thrilling novel about sex, class, desire, and power – and the (often misguided) lengths we’ll go to to get what we want, from Jennette McCurdy, the three-million copy, Sunday Times bestselling author of I'm Glad My Mom Died. Waldo is ravenous. Horny. Blunt. Naive. Wise. Impulsive. Lonely. Angry. Hurting. Endlessly wanting. And the thing she wants most of all? Mr. Korgy, her creative writing teacher. Mr Korgy, 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 that she doesn’t? Or are they actually kindred spirits, sharing the same 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 an incisive study of a yearning seventeen-year-old who disregards all obstacles in her effort to be seen, to be desired and to be loved.

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'Jennette McCurdy writes sentences that glimmer and cut like razors. With Half His Age, she delivers a deeply felt and humorous tale about the dangers of youth and desire. This novel is uncomfortable, unpredictable, and unputdownable.' Aria Aber, author of Good Girl 'A riveting examination of lust and self-delusion, and a sly reminder that our worst mistakes can sometimes lead us stumbling toward the light. McCurdy is a fearless and darkly funny writer with an unerring eye for the perfect mortifying detail.' Tom Perrotta, author of Election PRAISE FOR I'M GLAD MY MOM DIED… 'Jennette McCurdy is the queen of lemonade from lemons, using her trauma to weave a painfully funny story that also illuminates the commodification of teenage girls in America. An important cultural document just as much as a searingly personal one' Lena Dunham “How can a book be so sad and also so funny? It's an art, and Jennette McCurdy has mastered it' Jenny Lawson, New York Times bestselling author of Furiously Happy 'The number-one New York Times-bestselling memoir that has also achieved pop-cultural phenomenon status. McCurdy distinguishes herself from standard-issue celebrity memoir fare with a vivid, biting, darkly comic tone and an immersive present tense' Vogue “A stunning memoir. McCurdy reveals herself to be a stingingly funny and insightful writer, capable of great empathy and a brutal punchline'Time 'A coming-of-age story that is alternately harrowing and funny' The New York Times 'A magnum opus. Sharply funny and empathetic' The Washington Post 'The publishing sensation that—in short, punchy sentences delivered with a high level of self-perception—could transform the trauma memoir business' Guardian

PRAISE FOR I'M GLAD MY MOM DIED… 'Jennette McCurdy is the queen of lemonade from lemons, using her trauma to weave a painfully funny story that also illuminates the commodification of teenage girls in America. An important cultural document just as much as a searingly personal one' Lena Dunham “How can a book be so sad and also so funny? It's an art, and Jennette McCurdy has mastered it here. I’m Glad My Mom Died is hysterical and heartbreaking and fascinating all at the same time' Jenny Lawson, New York Times bestselling author of Furiously Happy 'A layered account of a woman reckoning with love and violence at once. This complexity is what makes I’m Glad My Mom Died feel real' The Atlantic 'Unflinching. It made me laugh; it made me cry. It's such a funny, dark, moving, honest, real, uncensored book, and it's unlike anything I've ever read' Salon 'The number-one New York Times-bestselling memoir that has also achieved pop-cultural phenomenon status. McCurdy distinguishes herself from standard-issue celebrity memoir fare with a vivid, biting, darkly comic tone and an immersive present tense' Vogue 'McCurdy’s book must be written by someone. Why? It must be done because there is someone out there right now who truly believes that life will never be any different. People like Jennette exist to tell them: You are not wrong, you can trust yourself. You can do this too' Observer “A stunning memoir. McCurdy reveals herself to be a stingingly funny and insightful writer, capable of great empathy and a brutal punchline'Time 'A coming-of-age story that is alternately harrowing and funny' The New York Times 'A magnum opus. Sharply funny and empathetic' The Washington Post 'The publishing sensation that—in short, punchy sentences delivered with a high level of self-perception—could transform the trauma memoir business' Guardian

Author Information

Jennette McCurdy starred in Nickelodeon's hit show iCarly and its spin-off, Sam & Cat, as well as in the Netflix series Between. In 2017, she quit acting and began pursuing writing/directing. Her films have been featured in the Florida Film Festival, the Salute Your Shorts Film Festival, Short of the Week, and elsewhere. Her essays have appeared in HuffPost and The Wall Street Journal. Her one-woman show I'm Glad My Mom Died had two sold-out runs at the Lyric Hyperion Theatre and Hudson Theatre in Los Angeles. She hosts a podcast called Empty Inside, which has topped Apple's charts and features guests speaking about uncomfortable topics. She lives in Los Angeles.

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