Moral Hazard - Couverture souple

Jennings, Kate

3,64

321 �valuations de Goodreads

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 192218215X ISBN 13 : 9781922182159

Editeur : Text Classics, 2016

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Revue de presse :

“A piercing novel, gleaming with facets of hard-won knowledge, polished by experience and a keen intelligence.” (Publishers Weekly (starred review))

“A timely, exquisitely written novel.” (Booklist)

“A small pearl of a novel...that carves beauty out of pain...Moral Hazard is as gripping as any thriller.” (New York Newsday)

“Intelligent, quietly passionate...true to life, and Kate Jennings tells it unflinchingly.” (Washington Post Book World)

“Whip-smart, knowing and wry.” (People)

“Compelling reading: Cath’s thorny humor adapts itself well to both terminal illness and terminal greed.” (New York Observer, Jennifer Egan)

“A powerful fable of personal tragedy and valiant survival: Kate Jennings’s wit and intelligence ring true on every page. (Maureen Howard)

“A unique book by an extraordinary writer: the great city illuminated from within.” (Shirley Hazzard)

“A most impressive achievement.” (Peter Singer)

“Books about illness often devolve into pathos...Jennings has chosen another path: unsentimental, spare, uncompromising.” (Time Out New York)

“Zinging parody...lays out the incentives that that drive Wall Street firms to invest rashly.” (Kiplinger’s Finance)

“Strikingly different from the typical treatment of the business world...lively and precise.” (New York Times Book Review)

“Savage and heartbreaking...a testament to human resilience.” (Book Magazine)

“Jennings...is never less than convincing.” (USA Today)

“Written in spare and starkly honest prose.” (Wall Street Journal)

“An engrossing cautionary tale for the 21st century that accurately captures the Alice in Wonderland quality of both Alzheimer’s and the financial services industry.” (Philadelphia Inquirer)

“Aches with emotion ranging from love to anger.” (Washington Post, Best Books of 2002)

“Powerful...darkly, disconcertingly comic...Jennings’ disturbing andmemorable novel builds quietly to its thought-provoking climax.” (London Sunday Times)

“An elegantly slim volume...with objectivity, humor and refreshing irony.” (Times Literary Supplement (London))

“A taut, harrowing, often sardonic novel...[which] has the power to move.” (San Francisco Chronicle)

“Spare, unsettling...almost unbearably sad.” (The New Yorker)

“How often do you finish a sensitive well-written book...and say “Good Lord, let’s regulate derivatives?” (Molly Ivins)

“A gorgeous, taut, mournful novella [set] in one of the most insular communities of Manhattan Island: Wall Street.” (New York Newsday)

Pr�sentation de l'�diteur :

On Wall Street, reflects Cath, women are about as welcome as fleas in a sleeping bag. Funny, liberal and left-leaning, she is an unlikely candidate to be writing speeches on derivatives in a Manhattan tower, 'putting words in the mouths of plutocrats deeply suspicious of metaphors and words of more than two syllables'. She finds herself on Wall Street because she needs serious money. After ten good years, her beloved older husband Bailey is suffering from Alzheimer's.So begins Cath's journey into two nightmare worlds. By day she deals with the topsy-turvy logic and ingrown personalities at work in high finance; by night she has to watch the slow disintegration of the man she loves. In between, she must stop herself from falling apart. As the money markets hurtle towards financial meltdown, Cath faces personal disaster and a moral hazard that she cannot ignore.Kate Jennings' prose is lean yet rich in unexpected, telling detail. Tense, taut and compulsively readable, Moral Hazard is peopled by extraordinary characters and informed by a mordant, witty intelligence.

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