Good Company, (Audiobook)

<p><b>From the brilliant Kate Christensen, winner of the PEN/Faulkner award for <i>The Great Man, </i> comes a compelling, searing, funny novel about women, sex, power, and self-reckoning.</b></p><p>Ever since her father broke her heart when she was nine, Julia Heimdahl has tried to be good company for bad men: a jovial drinking companion, an easygoing, witty non-complainer, one of the boys. Now a literary novelist in late middle age and late mid-career, she is at a moment of crisis, although she doesn't know it yet. </p><p>The novel<i> </i>takes place over the course of a weekend-long book festival at Baldwin College, which happens to be Julia's alma mater, where she has come to promote her recently published memoir. She's been placed on a panel with a fellow memoirist named Ellis Blackwell, a man so outrageously flirtatious and fawningly flattering, Julia is almost too disarmed to recognize how dangerous he is. </p><p>Interweaving excerpts from Julia's memoir with her encounters with important people from her past--the woman she was in love with in college, her old New York mentor, her male editor, her literary nemesis, a former graduate student--<i>Good Company </i>examines what it <i>really</i> means to be "good company" as Julia faces her demons and comes to terms with what she really wants from sex, life, and work.</p>

• Good Company, (Audiobook)
• Author: HarperCollins
• ISBN: 9798228983670
• Format: Audiobook
• Publication Date: 2026-06-16
• Page Count: 0