Ghosts of Manhattan : A Novel
by Brunt, Douglas
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- Used - Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1451672594
- ISBN 13
- 9781451672596
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Synopsis
A wryly comic, first-person debut novel offering a withering view of life on Wall Street from the perspective of an unhappy insider who is too hooked on the money to find a way out, even as his career is ruining his marriage and corroding his soul. It’s 2005. Nick Farmer is a thirty-five-year-old bond trader with Bear Stearns clearing seven figures a year. The novelty of a work-related nightlife centering on liquor, hookers, and cocaine has long since worn thin, though Nick remains keenly addicted to his annual bonus. But the lifestyle is taking a toll on his marriage and on him. When a nerdy analyst approaches him with apocalyptic prognostications of where Bear’s high-flying mortgage-backed securities trading may lead, Nick is presented with the kind of ethical dilemma he’s spent a lifetime avoiding. Throw in a hot financial journalist who seems to be more interested in him than in the percolating financial armageddon and the prospect that his own wife may have found a new romantic interest of her own, and you have the recipe for Nick’s personal and professional implosion. By turns hilarious and harrowing, Ghosts of Manhattan follows a winning but flawed character as he struggles to find the right path in a complicated urban heart of darkness.
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- Bookseller
- Better World Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- GRP88935173
- Title
- Ghosts of Manhattan : A Novel
- Author
- Brunt, Douglas
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1451672594
- ISBN 13
- 9781451672596
- Publisher
- Touchstone
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- 2012-10-02
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