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TALK TO ME
From the New Yorker writer and Thurber Prize-winning author of Truth in Advertising comes a wry yet tenderhearted father-daughter story that looks at family, marriage, and fame through the lens of a popular TV news anchor's public fall from grace.
It's a story that Ted Grayson has reported time and time again in his job as a network TV anchor: the public downfall of someone at the top. He just never imagined that it would happen to him. But after a profanity-laced tirade is caught on camera, his reputation and career are destroyed, leaving him without a script for the first time in years.
But while viewers may have loved and trusted Ted for decades, his family certainly didn't: His years of constant travel and his big-screen persona have frayed all of his important relationships. At the time of his meltdown, Ted is estranged from his wife, Claire, and his adult daughter, Franny, a writer for a popular website. Franny views her father's disgrace with curiosity and perhaps a bit of smug satisfaction, but when her boss suggests that she confront Ted in an interview, she has to decide whether to use his loss as her career gain. Meanwhile, Ted is desperate to reconnect with his family and repair his image, but he soon learns that those two things may be at odds with one another.
TALK TO ME is a warm, honest, and sharply funny story about private lives in today's public world... and about our ultimate capacity for forgiveness and empathy.
John Kenney is the author of Truth in Advertising, which won the Thurber Prize for American Humor in 2014. He has worked as a copywriter in New York City for seventeen years. He has also been a contributor toThe New Yorker magazine since 1999. Some of his work appears in a collection of The New Yorker's humor writing, Disquiet, Please! He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
But while viewers may have loved and trusted Ted for decades, his family certainly didn't: His years of constant travel and his big-screen persona have frayed all of his important relationships. At the time of his meltdown, Ted is estranged from his wife, Claire, and his adult daughter, Franny, a writer for a popular website. Franny views her father's disgrace with curiosity and perhaps a bit of smug satisfaction, but when her boss suggests that she confront Ted in an interview, she has to decide whether to use his loss as her career gain. Meanwhile, Ted is desperate to reconnect with his family and repair his image, but he soon learns that those two things may be at odds with one another.
TALK TO ME is a warm, honest, and sharply funny story about private lives in today's public world... and about our ultimate capacity for forgiveness and empathy.
John Kenney is the author of Truth in Advertising, which won the Thurber Prize for American Humor in 2014. He has worked as a copywriter in New York City for seventeen years. He has also been a contributor toThe New Yorker magazine since 1999. Some of his work appears in a collection of The New Yorker's humor writing, Disquiet, Please! He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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Published 2019-01-15 by Putnam |