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“If Catcher in the Rye has lost its raw clout for recent generations of Internet-suckled American youth, here is a coming-of-age novel to replace it.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
The first days of summer: Jim Praley is home from college, ready to unlock Tulsa's secrets. He drives the highways. He forces himself to get out of his car and walk into a bar. He's invited to a party. And there he meets Adrienne Booker; Adrienne rules Tulsa, in her way. A high-school dropout with a penthouse apartment, she takes a curious interest in Jim. Through her eyes, he will rediscover his hometown: its wasted sprawl, the beauty of its late nights, and, at the city's center, the unsleeping light of its skyscrapers.
In the tradition of Michael Chabon's The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, A Map of Tulsa is elegiac, graceful, and as much a story about young love as it is a love letter to a classic American city.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
- Sales Rank: #717482 in eBooks
- Published on: 2013-03-26
- Released on: 2013-03-26
- Format: Kindle eBook
From Booklist
Returning home from college to Tulsa for the summer, teenage Jim encounters wealthy, bohemian Adrienne, a distant acquaintance from high school, and falls in love. At the end of the summer, however, he returns to college and—perhaps improbably—loses touch with her. Five years later he receives an e-mail out of the blue that impulsively sends him back to Tulsa. Lytal’s first novel is dense with the maplike details of a specific place, the city of Tulsa, and also of the intricate geography of two young hearts. Taking himself very seriously, as young adults do, Jim is essentially humorless, as is Adrienne. And though the young man examines his relationship with Adrienne almost microscopically, the pair’s actions often seem arbitrary. Tulsa itself is a character in the novel but one that seems empty, the streets deserted and the city itself like a ghost town. A similar hollowness sometimes seems to infect the book itself. All this aside, however, it is beautifully written. Jim is an aspiring poet, and Lytal brings the same sensibility to his novel, making it, in the final analysis, a memorable reading experience. --Michael Cart
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'Fearless, serious, and impressive ... Lytal asks the essential questions.' Gary Sernovitz, The New York Times Book Review -------- 'A Map of Tulsa deserves comparison with the very best novels of its kind, from James Salter's A Sport and a Pastime to Scott Spencer's Endless Love. It's also one of the most insightful books about the comforts (and traps) of small-city parochialism I've ever read.' Tom Bissell, Harper's Magazine -------- 'Depicted with an Updike-esque lyricism - the prose is near flawless. - Lytal is clearly going to be a name to watch.' WB Gooderham, the Guardian -------- 'A Map of Tulsa is superbly evocative of Jim and Adrienne's discoveries of sex, love and jealousy. Mr. Lytal's exhilarating writing is reminiscent of winsome, confessional bildungsromans like Ben Lerner's Leaving the Atocha Station (2011) or John Cotter's Under the Small Lights (2010).' Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal -------- 'Ambitious... Witty... Wise... A joyous elegy to the great, passed-over cities of middle America... Like Bret Easton Ellis's Clay from Less Than Zero, another kid on break from college, Jim has the freedom to remake himself... And with good old Jim as our eyes and ears, we experience the ecstasy of that first, 20-something romance.' The Boston Globe -------- 'Mr. Lytal, a Tulsa native, gets the push and pull of home just right.' The New York Times -------- 'This lyrical slow burn of a book is ... a meditation on place, destiny, and fate.' The New Yorker -------- 'Tender and engaging... A memorable coming-of-age tale about hometown ambivalence and finding a place in the world... The tension between the cosmopolitan and provincial, the sensuous and the chaste, is a big reason why A Map of Tulsa is so memorable... [Lytal's] great achievement in A Map of Tulsa is to bring his hometown to life as a place where all sorts of American ghosts can be found living amid the seemingly generic landscape of a midsized, middle-American city.' Hector Tobar, The Los Angeles Times -------- ' - a story of love for a time, a place and an ideal.' Carl MacDougall, The Warwick Review -------- 'Benjamin Lytal's debut novel is a Bildungsroman that works against genre, dismantling conceits about youth and personal history in the style of Ben Lerner's Leaving the Atocha Station - A Map of Tulsa is an ecstatic romance and a comment on the mythologies we build out of our beginnings.' New Statesman -------- 'A Map of Tulsa is infused with the poignancy that comes of being too naive and narcissistic to value what you already have - A Map of Tulsa has a drifting, and somewhat aimless quality in keeping with the rudderless desires of youth. Lytal's strongest gifts lie in the offbeat, lyrical way he conjures up the emptiness of Tulsa - ' Patrick Langley, TLS -------- 'The reader comes to realise that Jim Praley is not so much an unreliable narrator as a hopelessly gauche one - A Map of Tulsa is a complex novel, elegiac in tone whilst still managing to criticise the nostalgia of its protagonist - Lytal's writing is both fresh and familiar - There's a hint of Springsteen in this story of small town aspiration and adventure, and something admirably blue collar about his style, straightforward and brisk - A confident and assured debut.' The Literateur -------- 'A romance of the West, an Oklahoma of glass skyscrapers, oil fortunes, and dive bars. Lytal's first novel is a love story and a tragedy and a stunning work of lyricism.' Christian Lorentzen, Bookforum
About the Author
Benjamin Lytal has written for numerous publications, including the Wall Street Journal, the London Review of Books and the Nation. Originally from Tulsa, he currently lives in Berlin. A Map of Tulsa is his first novel.
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful.
A coming of age love story
By TChris
A Map of Tulsa is both a love story and a coming of age novel. The former is more successful than the latter.
Jim Praley is back in Tulsa for the summer, having finished his freshman year of college. He soon finds himself hanging out with Adrienne, the sexually adventurous daughter of a wealthy family. Having dropped out of high school, Adrienne wants to be an artist (an avocation Jim encourages by sharing the knowledge he gained in the art history class he took during his freshman year) or a singer.
Jim is an odd duck, sometimes too odd to believe. He tells us that buying condoms is an "embarrassment that was endemic to my heart." Apart from his questionable use of the word "endemic," this story isn't set in the 1950s when buyers had to ask a pharmacist for condoms that were kept behind the counter. I find it hard to believe he couldn't go to Target (his favorite store in Tulsa) and toss a package of condoms into his shopping cart without upsetting his heart. Jim can't take Adrienne to Target because Target reminds him of his childhood and he "kept certain parts of myself back," including -- for reasons I can't begin to fathom -- shopping at Target. Jim seems to think that's deep, but I thought it was a little silly.
Part one establishes Jim's relationship with Adrienne. Part two begins with Jim's return to Tulsa five years later. Adrienne's life has changed drastically, while Jim (despite living and working in New York) hasn't changed in any meaningful way. In a conventional coming of age novel, the protagonist makes a life-altering decision, faces a moral crisis, or in some other way loses innocence, gains wisdom, or takes a significant step toward maturity. True to the convention, Jim does learn something about himself in part two, although I'm not sure he's any more "adult" at the end of the novel than he was at the beginning. More significantly, he learns something about the meaning and nature of love, and that is the novel's strength.
Benjamin Lytal conveys honest emotion when he writes about Jim's feelings for Adrienne. In other respects, his prose is troubling. A writing style that seems determined to be witty or ironic or profound too often comes across as childish. I had the impression that Lytal was striving for the voice of an eloquent Holden Caulfield. The result is discordant and occasionally jarring. In his apparent determination to be literary, Lytal produces sentences like "She was unconscious, but her lips were grim and full of knowledge." Whatever does that mean? Her lips were ready to take their SATs? I was equally puzzled when, referring to the exhaust from cars on the highway, Jim says "I took in the fumes like sea air." Poisonous gasses are like sea air? Literary prose should seem effortless, while too many of Lytal's sentences are forced. He has some skill as a writer; I hope his next effort is more consistent.
Lytal makes some noteworthy observations about the nature of friendship, particularly the American tendency to abandon old friends and seek out new ones as we move on with our lives. Jim's reflections on his time with Adrienne seem genuine, although they're never as moving as Lytal must have intended them to be. I can't say that A Map of Tulsa is an entirely successful novel, but it has its moments. I would give it 3 1/2 stars if I could.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
Unique, witty, hard to forget
By Bookish2
This is such an unusual, witty, sometimes wistful first novel by a writer with what seems a genuine poetic sensibility. Occasionally Lytal's style reminded me of Tom McCarthy's in Remainder--dry, arch, detached but somehow fervent at the same time. A Map of Tulsa also reminded me of Michael Chabon's Mysteries of Pittsburgh. There are strong similarities to Chabon in particular: the wry sense of humor, but a passionate desire too to be loved and understood. I can see many more books and more fame and eventually, awards coming to Lytal, as they did to Chabon.
The narrator, Jim Praley, falls in love with a more or less parentless heiress, Adrienne Booker, whose family owns and manages Booker Petroleum. They spend most of the summer between Jim's freshman and sophomore year at college together, and both are wary of expressing the depth of their feelings for each other - I loved that the sincerity of their attachment is revealed slowly and with such deftness. The second of the novel's two sections is a study in writerly restraint and skill - Lytal takes on large themes - love, mortality, art, identity and how it is tied to the place where one grows up and the people one first loves, often with frightening but enlivening ardor.
This is a remarkable and memorable novel. I look forward to reading Lytal's next book and hope not to have to wait too long.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
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By Stephen T. Hopkins
I was engaged and entertained by Benjamin Lytal's debut novel, A Map of Tulsa. The friendship between Jim Praley and Adrienne Booker provides the backdrop for this coming of age story. Lytal addresses loss and grief in the novel in ways that seemed fresh and familiar at the same time. While I have never been to Tulsa, the geography of that place became so detailed and specific it was as if the place were another character in the novel. Readers who enjoy coming of age stories and are willing to take a chance on a debut novel are those most likely to enjoy this well-crafted work.
Rating: Four-star (I like it)
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