Teddy Wayne’s new novel, set in a wealthy enclave in Massachusetts, draws on Highsmith for its inspired take on how money, sex and power can corrupt.
,” is a bucolic community of mansions on the southern shore of Massachusetts. The town’s name, Cutters Neck, sounds like a warning. And then there’s the ominous question a 50-something divorcee flirtily asks Conor, the young law student who has decamped in town for the summer: “You’re not a con man impersonating a tennis pro for some nefarious purpose?” The foreshadowing hardly has any shadows at all.
Wayne gently guides Conor away from this benign perspective toward an awareness of something crueler: Old money is nefarious and abusive right now, at this moment, and you’ll have to be that way too if you want to keep up.The flirty woman, Catherine, hires Conor for tennis lessons that soon become sexual liaisons. His initial doubts are alleviated by the size of her checks, which Conor can put toward his ailing mom’s medical bills.
Though “The Winner” is billed as Wayne’s first thriller, he’s been working up to a book like this. In recent years, he’s developed into America’s preeminent novelist of male entitlement, specializing in guys who think they’re doing the right thing while being blinkered to the bigger picture. In 2020’s “Apartment,” an aspiring writer is consumed with jealousy of a classmate.
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