YOUNG MAN'S GUIDE TO LATE CAPITALISM - Couverture souple

Mountford, Peter

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0547473354 ISBN 13 : 9780547473352

Editeur : Mariner Books, 2011

Synopsis

On his first assignment for a rapacious hedge fund, Gabriel embarks to Bolivia at the end of 2005 to ferret out insider information about the plans of the controversial president-elect. If Gabriel succeeds, he will get a bonus that would make him secure for life. Standing in his way are his headstrong mother, herself a survivor of Pinochet’s Chile, and Gabriel’s new love interest, the president’s passionate press liaison. Caught in a growing web of lies and questioning his own role in profiting from an impoverished people, Gabriel sets in motion a terrifying plan that could cost him the love of all those he holds dear.

In the tradition of Martin Amis, Joshua Ferris, and Sam Lipsyte—set against the stunning mountainous backdrop of La Paz and interspersed with Bolivia’s sad history of stubborn survival—Peter Mountford examines the critical choices a young man makes as his world closes in on him.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

While writing about economics in Ecuador for a nonprofit think tank, Peter Mountford noticed his byline read “senior associate” for a hedge fund he’d never heard of. It turned out the think tank was running the hedge fund out of its back office—inspiration for A Young Man’s Guide to Late Capitalism. Mountford has lived in Washington, D.C., New York, and Los Angeles, as well as Scotland, Sri Lanka, Ecuador, and Southern Mexico. His fiction has appeared in Best New American Voices 2008, Boston Review, and Conjunctions.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Mariner Books
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0547473354
• ISBN 13: 9780547473352
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 297
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