Touchstone, 2012-10-02. Hardcover. Good. 1.0000 in x 8.5000 in x 5.6000 in. This is a used book in good condition and may show some signs of use or wear .

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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: Once Upon a Time Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: mon0001130459
Title: Ghosts of Manhattan
Author: Brunt, Douglas
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Good
Quantity Available: 1
ISBN 10: 1451672594
ISBN 13: 9781451672596
Publisher: Touchstone
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 2012-10-02
Size: 1.0000 in x 8.5000 in x 5.6000 i
Bookseller catalogs: Book;
X weight: 0.7900 lb

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