The Winner

From Whiting Award winner Teddy Wayne, a propulsive literary thriller about a young law student teaching tennis in a posh gated community near Cape Cod who finds himself erotically entangled with a ruthless divorce--until he makes one final, irreversible mistake. Conor O'Toole has never been anywhere as casually glamorous as Cutters Neck, where he's taken a summer job as a tennis instructor. He can't believe his luck, living for free in a guest cottage in exchange for lessons, deliciously far from the cramped Yonkers apartment he shares with his diabetic mother. Grateful as he is to be surrounded by this oceanfront luxury, however, he and his mom have bills to pay, and it isn't proving as easy as he hoped to sign up new clients. That is, until a sharp-tongued divorce appears on the court, offering him twice his usual hourly rate. Soon, he realizes
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