Ways and Means
Autor Daniel Leffertsen Limba Engleză Paperback – 5 aug 2025
LONG-LISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE
"An absolute riot... Lefferts's wry examination of the societal and economic shifts that led to the once unthinkable hits incredibly close to home." -Vanity Fair
Alistair McCabe arrives in New York with a plan. Young, handsome, intelligent, and gay, he hopes to escape his Rust Belt poverty and give his mother a better life by pursuing a career in high finance.
But by the spring of 2016, Alistair's plan has completely come undone:
- Mired in student debt, his dream investment banking career has eluded him.
- Desperate for a way out, he enters the orbit of an enigmatic billionaire whose true ambitions turn out to be far darker than Alistair could have ever imagined.
A searing debut about a striving finance student, the fine line between ambition and greed, and the disordered politics of our era, Ways and Means is a propulsive literary thriller about money, power, and the cost of American success.
Praise for Ways and Means
"An auspicious debut . . . a wildly entertaining drama of ambition and consequence." -Wall Street Journal
"A sexy political thriller." -Washington Post
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 1419768204
Pagini: 400
Dimensiuni: 139 x 208 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.35 kg
Editura: HARRY N ABRAMS INC
Notă biografică
Daniel Lefferts is the author of Ways and Means, which was long-listed for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. Raised in upstate New York, he holds an MFA from Columbia University and has taught writing at Columbia and Rutgers. His work has appeared in The Paris Review, The Yale Review, The New York Review of Books, GQ, and The Baffler. He lives in the Hudson Valley.
Descriere
In this searing debut novel, a striving finance student confronts the line between ambition and greed and the disordered politics of his era
Alistair McCabe comes to New York with a plan. Young, handsome, intelligent, and gay, he hopes to escape his Rust Belt poverty and give his mother a better life by pursuing a career in high finance. But by the spring of 2016, Alistair's plan has come undone: His fantasy banking job has eluded him, he's mired in student debt, and in his desperation, he's gone to work for an enigmatic billionaire whose ambitions turn out to be far darker than any Alistair could have imagined. By the time Alistair uncovers his employer's secret, his life is in danger and now he's on the run.
Meanwhile, Alistair's paramours, an older couple named Mark and Elijah, must face their own moral and financial dilemmas. Mark, nearing the end of his trust fund, takes a job with his father's mobile home empire that forces him to confront the unsavory foundations of his family's wealth, while Elijah, a failed painter, hitches his wagon to an artist-provocateur engaged on a project that makes the country's political chaos into a thing of alluring, amoral beauty. As the nation hurtles toward a breaking point, Alistair, Mark, and Elijah must band together to save one another and themselves.
Propulsive, exuberant, and profoundly observed, Ways and Means is an indelible, deeply moving investigation of class and ambition, sex and art, and politics and power in the American 21st century.