Farrell Covington and the Limits of Style

“A case study in elegant,honest tragicomedy…by the genuinely hilarious Paul Rudnick” (Gary ShteyngartNew York Times bestselling author) that follows the decades-longrule-breaking romance between the son of one of America’s wealthiest families and a middle-class aspiring author. Devastatingly handsome and insanely richFarrell Covington is capable of anything and impossible to resist. He’s a clear-eyed romantican aesthete but not a snobself-indulgent yet wildly generous. As the son of one of the country’s most powerful and deeply conservative familiesthe world could be his. But when he falls for Nate Remingeran aspiring writer from a nice Jewish family in PiscatawayNew Jerseythe results are passionate and catastrophic. Togetherthe two embark on a unique romance that spans half a century. They are inseparable—except for the many years when they are apart. Moving from the ivy-covered bastion of Yale to New York CityLos Angelesand eventually all over the worldFarrell and Nate experience the tremendous upheaval and social change of the last fifty years. From the freedom of gay life in 1970s Manhattan to the Hollywood closetthe AIDS epidemicand the profound strides of the LGBTQ+ movementthis witty and moving novel shows how the world changes around us while we’re busy doing other things. Written with “engaging witside-eyed perceptivenessand barbed elan” (Michael Chabon)this modern classic proves that style has its limitslove does not.