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"Be prepared to fully lose yourself in The Winner --a book I started and then simply couldn''t stop reading. Teddy Wayne has written a timely, topical novel that still somehow feels like a classic." -- Liz Moore, New York Times bestselling author of Long Bright River
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"Be prepared to fully lose yourself in The Winner-a book I started and then simply couldn't stop reading. Teddy Wayne has written a timely, topical novel that still somehow feels like a classic." - Liz Moore, New York Times bestselling author of Long Bright River
"The Winner is a lean, careening thrill of a book that 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 that 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 favorite books of the year." - Megan Nolan, internationally bestselling author of Acts of Desperation and Ordinary Human Failings
"Readers will zoom through Wayne's...bitingly satirical literary thriller." - Booklist
"Page-turning...Wayne has packaged a literary examination of wealth and privilege as a summer thriller...The Winner delivers another scathing indictment of human nature, even if that means indicting ourselves." - Chicago Review of Books
"An acid portrait of life in one of America's privileged gated enclaves. . . . Class is a subject seldom addressed in contemporary American fiction. . . . Teddy Wayne's latest makes a welcome contribution to the neglected subject." - Boston Globe
"I read this book so fast my eyes started to burn." - Hobart
"There's a hint of Tom Ripley in the stylish, smart thriller [and] its inspired take on how money, sex and power can corrupt. . . . The Winner has a creepy Highsmithian placidity, coolly measured while depicting bad things being done and cannily covering up the evidence. . . . The Winner is among Wayne's best, a savvy take on sex, money and power. . . . He can write a thoughtful novel about moral ambiguity and corruption that's also a movie-ready page turner, with enough room for a sequel." - Washington Post
"[A] gripping high-stakes tale of dangerous liaisons, grand deception, and ruthless ambition...What started out as a sharp comedy of manners about the carefree lives of the careless rich becomes a fast-paced psychological drama with hidden depths and dark undercurrents...an exhilarating reading experience." - Washington Examiner
A Best Book of the Year: The New Yorker and Vogue
"Conor O'Toole is a fascinating character...Teddy Wayne has created a real dark gem...The Winner serves, dinks, and backhands up a scathing satire, where entitlement and privilege get caught in its own playful, libidinous, and morally ambiguous net." - Vol. 1 Brooklyn
"Wayne has a pitch-perfect understanding of this tiny slice of American privilege, and also a sense of what might happen to a deeply admirable character whose strong moral code is severely tested by circumstance. I was reminded at various times of "The Great Gatsby," "The Talented Mr. Ripley" and, in a different way, "The Graduate." All those books filled me with unease. This one made me feel beside myself with anxiety." - Sarah Lyall for The New York Times
"Over the last decade and a half, Teddy Wayne has emerged as a writer willing to reckon with some of the biggest issues facing the nation." - InsideHook
"Propulsive, winning...The Winner's pace never slackens...Wayne...writes on male alienation as well as any contemporary American novelist." - The Mars Review
