{"id":2173,"date":"2025-01-26T13:21:02","date_gmt":"2025-01-26T13:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/book-excerpt-playworld-by-adam-ross\/"},"modified":"2025-01-26T13:21:02","modified_gmt":"2025-01-26T13:21:02","slug":"book-excerpt-playworld-by-adam-ross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/book-excerpt-playworld-by-adam-ross\/","title":{"rendered":"Book excerpt: &#8220;Playworld&#8221; by Adam Ross"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-large\"><span class=\"img embed__content\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/01\/24\/4bbe7dd4-772a-4a06-84e1-bfbcfdb58e75\/thumbnail\/620x465\/5e3b9c42342e80f78c2b16e7518c9116\/playworld-cover-1280.jpg?v=e306e7b9fefc168c00baa623d76d1eaf#\" alt=\"playworld-cover-1280.jpg \" height=\"465\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/01\/24\/4bbe7dd4-772a-4a06-84e1-bfbcfdb58e75\/thumbnail\/620x465\/5e3b9c42342e80f78c2b16e7518c9116\/playworld-cover-1280.jpg?v=e306e7b9fefc168c00baa623d76d1eaf 1x, https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/01\/24\/4bbe7dd4-772a-4a06-84e1-bfbcfdb58e75\/thumbnail\/1240x930\/cdee18e796661fa3cfd968b4508367cc\/playworld-cover-1280.jpg?v=e306e7b9fefc168c00baa623d76d1eaf 2x\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg'%20viewBox%3D'0%200%20620%20465'%2F%3E\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\"><span class=\"embed__caption\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Knopf<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Adam Ross, the acclaimed author of &#8220;Mr. Peanut,&#8221; returns with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/231601\/playworld-by-adam-ross\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>&#8220;Playworld&#8221;<\/strong><\/a> (Knopf), a novel dipped in nostalgia and flecked with love and sorrow, about a child actor coming of age as the object of attraction for an older woman. <\/p>\n<p>Read an excerpt below.\u00a0<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0385351291?tag=cbs-news-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8220;Playworld&#8221; by Adam Ross<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Prefer to listen?\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/clicks.trx-hub.com\/xid\/cbsint_a10ef_cbsnews?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fb%3Fnode%3D18145289011%26linkCode%3Dll2%26tag%3Dcbs-news-20%26linkId%3Daa786326720cc98c8ec74d842c39745b%26language%3Den_US%26ref_%3Das_li_ss_tl&amp;p=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cbsnews.com%2Fnews%2Fbook-excerpt-playworld-by-adam-ross%2F&amp;event_type=click&amp;article_id=e05dc7a1-93d3-4de1-b996-807642c6afd4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow, sponsored, noopener\">Audible<\/a>\u00a0has a 30-day free trial available right now.<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<h2>Prologue<\/h2>\n<p>In the fall of 1980, when I was fourteen, a friend of my parents named Naomi Shah fell in love with me. She was thirty-six, a mother of two, and married to a wealthy man. Like so many things that happened to me that year, it didn&#8217;t seem strange at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Two decades later, when I finally told my mother\u2014we were on Long Island, taking a walk on the beach\u2014she stopped, stunned, and said, &#8220;But she was such an ugly woman.&#8221; The remark wasn&#8217;t as petty as it sounds. If I was aware of it then, it neither repulsed me nor affected my feelings for Naomi. It was just a thing I took for granted, like the color of her hair.<\/p>\n<p>Wiry and ashen, it had the shading but not the shimmer of pigeon feathers. Naomi kept it long, so that it fell past her shoulders. I knew it by touch, for my face was often buried in it. Only later did I wonder if she considered herself unattractive, because she always wore sunglasses, as if to hide her face, large gold frames with blue-tinted prescription lenses. When we were driving together, which was often that year, she&#8217;d allow these to slide down her nose and then look at me over their bridge. She might&#8217;ve considered this pose winning, but it was more likely to see me better. Her mouth often hung slightly open. Her lower teeth were uneven, and her tongue, which pressed against them, always tasted of coffee.<\/p>\n<p>Naomi&#8217;s car was a silver Mercedes sedan\u2014300sd along with turbo diesel nickel-plated on the back\u2014that made a deep hum when she drove. The interior, enormous in my mind&#8217;s eye, was tricked out with glossy wood paneling and white leather, back seat so wide and legroom so ample they made the driver appear to be far away. It was in this car that Naomi and I talked most often. We&#8217;d park, and then she&#8217;d lean across the armrest to press her cheek to mine, and I&#8217;d sometimes allow her to kiss me. Other times we&#8217;d move to the back. Lying there with Naomi, her nose nuzzled to my neck, I&#8217;d stare at the ceiling&#8217;s dotted fabric until the pattern seemed to detach and drift like a starred sky. This car was her prized possession, and like many commuters, she had turned the machine into an extension of her body. Her left thumb lightly hooked the wheel at eight o&#8217;clock when traffic was moving, her fingertips sliding to eleven when it was slow. She preferred to sit slightly reclined, her free hand spread on her inner thigh, though after she lost her pinky the following summer, and even after being fitted with a prosthesis, she kept it tucked away.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was worried you&#8217;d think it was disgusting,&#8221; she said, the digit hidden between the seat and her hip. She&#8217;d bought herself a diamond ring to hide the seam, and for the most part the likeness was uncanny, but at certain angles you could tell\u2014the cuticle&#8217;s line was too smooth, the nail&#8217;s pale crescent too creamy to match the others. Like my father&#8217;s fake teeth, which he occasionally left lying around our apartment, I was fascinated by it, though my curiosity wasn&#8217;t morbid. I was a child actor, you see, a student of all forms of dissembling, and had long ago found my greatest subject to be adults.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<br \/>Excerpted from &#8220;Playworld&#8221; by Adam Ross. Copyright \u00a9 2025 by Adam Ross. Excerpted by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved. 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