Moral Hazard
Autor Kate Jenningsen Limba Engleză Paperback – 12 apr 2016
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L.A. Times Book Prize (2002)
"A unique book by an extraordinary writer...humane and unsparing; witty, unsettling, and wildly intelligent."—Shirley Hazzard, author of The Transit of Venus
"A piercing novel, gleaming with facets of hard-won knowledge, polished by experience and a keen intelligence."—Publisher's Weekly
On Wall Street in the 1990s, where ego, vanity and hypocrisy run rife, an ex-radical feminist takes a job as a corporate speechwriter to support her older husband, who has been diagnosed with Alzheimers.
Kate Jennings' novels, Snake and Moral Hazard, were both New York Times Notable Books. Born in Australia, she has lived in New York since 1979.
"A piercing novel, gleaming with facets of hard-won knowledge, polished by experience and a keen intelligence."—Publisher's Weekly
On Wall Street in the 1990s, where ego, vanity and hypocrisy run rife, an ex-radical feminist takes a job as a corporate speechwriter to support her older husband, who has been diagnosed with Alzheimers.
Kate Jennings' novels, Snake and Moral Hazard, were both New York Times Notable Books. Born in Australia, she has lived in New York since 1979.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781922182159
ISBN-10: 192218215X
Pagini: 192
Dimensiuni: 127 x 193 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.09 kg
Ediția:Second Edition
Editura: Text Classics
Locul publicării:Australia
ISBN-10: 192218215X
Pagini: 192
Dimensiuni: 127 x 193 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.09 kg
Ediția:Second Edition
Editura: Text Classics
Locul publicării:Australia
Notă biografică
Kate Jennings is a poet, essayist, short-story writer and novelist. Both her novels, Snake and Moral Hazard, were New York Times Notable Books of the Year. She has won the ALS Gold Medal, the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction and the Adelaide Festival fiction prize. Born in rural New South Wales, she has lived in New York since 1979.
Descriere
1990s Wall Street—ego and hypocrisy run rife. An ex-radical feminist works as a corporate speechwriter to support her dying husband.
Premii
- L.A. Times Book Prize Finalist, 2002