Nate, as the title character is known, is heading toward a dinner party, and while he has lived in Brooklyn for a few years, he has only just arrived in a social sense. Like Austen’s great “Pride and Prejudice,” “The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.” starts its sharp-edged cultural satire with the appearance of an eligible young man. But Adelle Waldman just may be this generation’s Jane Austen, as she skewers the mating mores of today’s aristocrats, the young literary elite of Brooklyn, N.Y., in her funny and at times painfully acute debut novel. It can no longer be universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a “significant” book advance must be in want of a wife, and Nathaniel Piven is no Mr. Adelle Waldman inhabits the world of a Brooklyn, N.Y., writer.
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