{"id":27635,"date":"2024-11-16T12:05:11","date_gmt":"2024-11-16T12:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentsclub.org\/homepage\/in-the-drink-a-novel\/"},"modified":"2024-11-16T12:05:11","modified_gmt":"2024-11-16T12:05:11","slug":"in-the-drink-a-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentsclub.org\/homepage\/in-the-drink-a-novel\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Drink: A Novel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\nPrice: <span style=\"color:#b12704\">$3.99<\/span><br \/><i><small>(as of Nov 16, 2024 12:05:11 UTC &#8211; <span class=\"wp_automatic_amazon_disclaimer\" title=\"Product prices and availability are accurate as of the date\/time indicated and are subject to change. Any price and availability information displayed on [relevant Amazon Site(s), as applicable] at the time of purchase will apply to the purchase of this product.\">Details<\/span>)<\/small><\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amazon.com\/dp\/B005LALEOK?tag=musadiqhus0f2-20\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/valvepress.s3.amazonaws.com\/imgs\/buy_now.png\"><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\n  Combining sly humor with an urban edge, Kate Christensen&#8217;s In the Drink tells the story of a resolutely clear-eyed young woman who makes a complete mess of her life, and lives to tell the tale.<\/p>\n<p>The novel&#8217;s heroine is the smart, pretty, underemployed, and single Claudia Steiner, personal secretary to Genevieve del Castellano, a terrifying, glamorous semi-lunatic who has it in for her for reasons she can&#8217;t even begin to fathom. William, her best friend, considers Claudia his pal, his confidante, his sidekick in matters amatory, which would be fine if she weren&#8217;t desperately in love with him herself. Further complicating matters is Claudia&#8217;s old lover John Threadgill, an unpublished epic poet whose marriage to a Romanian stripper named Rima hasn&#8217;t kept him from trying to seduce Claudia at every opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>Claudia came to New York City fresh out of college, buoyed along by her dream of becoming a journalist. But her starry-eyed notion of Claudia Steiner, Reporter on the Beat, quickly vanished into the ozone when she couldn&#8217;t muster the requisite hard-bitten, white-hot urgency, the chain-smoking, the yelling, and the cutthroat story-mongering. Now, at the age of twenty-nine, she finds herself adrift in the city, careening dangerously from catastrophe to catastrophe. Desperately trying to keep her head above water, Claudia has little to rely on but a wry sense of humor, a keen appreciation of the medicinal properties of whiskey, and something more subtle&#8211;a persistent little flame of belief in herself, which makes a happy ending seem possible even in this most unforgiving of cities.<\/p>\n<p>Hilarious, compassionate, and keenly observed, In the Drink is the enormously entertaining debut of a startlingly talented young writer.<\/p>\n<p>BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from Kate Christensen&#8217;s\u00a0Blue Plate Special.    <\/p>\n<p> ASIN                                    \u200f                                        :                                    \u200e                                 B005LALEOK <br \/> Publisher                                    \u200f                                        :                                    \u200e                                 Anchor; 1st Anchor Books Ed edition (September 28, 2011) <br \/> Publication date                                    \u200f                                        :                                    \u200e                                 September 28, 2011 <br \/> Language                                    \u200f                                        :                                    \u200e                                 English <br \/> File size                                    \u200f                                        :                                    \u200e                                 1981 KB <br \/> Text-to-Speech                                    \u200f                                        :                                    \u200e                                 Enabled <br \/> Screen Reader                                    \u200f                                        :                                    \u200e                                 Supported <br \/> Enhanced typesetting                                    \u200f                                        :                                    \u200e                                 Enabled <br \/> X-Ray                                    \u200f                                        :                                    \u200e                                 Not Enabled <br \/> Word Wise                                    \u200f                                        :                                    \u200e                                 Enabled <br \/> Print length                                    \u200f                                        :                                    \u200e                                 290 pages <br \/> Page numbers source ISBN                                    \u200f                                        :                                    \u200e                                 0385720211 <\/p>\n<div id=\"product-summary\" data-hook=\"cr-insights-widget-summary\" class=\"a-section a-spacing-none\">\n<div class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-spacing-top-\">\n<h3 data-hook=\"cr-insights-heading-label\" class=\"a-size-base-plus a-color-base a-text-bold\">Customers say<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"a-spacing-small\"><span>Customers find the characters richer and deeper. 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