Name: Half his Age
Price: 432.00 ZAR
Availability: InStock
Author: Jennette McCurdy
ISBN: 9780593723739

Type

Physical Book

Author

Jennette McCurdy

Publisher

Ballantine Books

Year

2026

Language

English

Pages

288

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

14 x 21 cm

ISBN13

9780593723739

Half his Age

Jennette McCurdy (Author) · Ballantine Books · Paperback

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Synopsis "Half his Age"

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of I’m Glad My Mom Died comes “a thorny examination of power, lust, shame and rage” (Los Angeles Times) from “a writer able to capture some of the darkest parts of human nature with unflinching honesty and devastating humor” (NPR)

“Unapologetic and undeniable . . . If there was ever any doubt whether the narrative command that Jennette McCurdy displayed in her bestselling memoir I’m Glad My Mom Died might translate to fiction, let it henceforth be put to rest.”—Elle

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—or attempts to overcome them—in her effort to be seen, to be desired, to be loved.

Jennette McCurdy

(Author)

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Jennette McCurdy starred in the hit Nickelodeon show iCarly and its spin-off, Sam & Cat, as well as the Netflix series Between. In 2017, she stopped acting and began writing and directing. Her films have been featured at various festivals. She writes articles for HuffPost and The Wall Street Journal. Her monologue I'm Glad My Mom Died sold out tickets for its two sessions at the Lyric Hyperion Theatre and the Hudson Theatre in Los Angeles. She hosts a podcast titled Empty Inside, which has topped Apple's charts and features guests discussing uncomfortable topics. She lives in Los Angeles.

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