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Carregando... The Hunger of the Wolf: A Novelde Stephen Marche
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. audio The Hunger of the Wolf is a novel about the way we live now: a sweeping, genre-busting tale of money, morality, and the American Dream—and the men and monsters who profit in its pursuit." (Publisher's description) This was a book set in Canada, Canadian author, and satisfied a "July challenge" requirement. I should have read further in the description. It begins in this manner... " the body in the snow is that of Ben Wylie, the heir to America’s second-wealthiest business dynasty....ok! Then "from the mills of Depression-era Pittsburgh"....double ok!! Then I discover this is the saga with a supernatural twist. The entrepreneurial men of the dynasty are actually men-wolves, with required, scheduled time in basement cages. I say if this piques your interest...go for it... It just wasn't my cup of tea. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
"A breakout book from Stephen Marche, The Hunger of the Wolf is a novel about the way we live now: a sweeping, genre-busting tale of money, morality, and the American Dream and the men and monsters who profit in its pursuit set in New York, London, and the Canadian wilderness. Hunters found his body naked in the snow. So begins this breakout book from Stephen Marche, the provocative Esquire columnist and regular contributor to The Atlantic, whose last work of fiction was described by the New York Times Book Review as "maybe the most exciting mash-up of literary genres since David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas." The body in the snow is that of Ben Wylie, the heir to America's second-wealthiest business dynasty, and it is found in a remote patch of northern Canada. Far away, in post-crash New York, Jamie Cabot, the son of the Wylie family's housekeepers, must figure out how and why Ben died. He knows the answer lies in the tortured history of the Wylie family, who over three generations built up their massive holdings into several billion dollars' worth of real estate, oil, and information systems despite a terrible family secret they must keep from the world. The threads of the Wylie men's destinies, both financial and supernatural, lead twistingly but inevitably to the naked body in the snow and a final, chilling revelation. The Hunger of the Wolf is a novel about what it means to be a man in the world of money. It is a story of fathers and sons, about secrets that are kept within families, and about the cost of the tension between the public face and the private soul. Spanning from the mills of Depression era Pittsburgh to the Swinging London of the 1960s, from desolate Alberta to the factories of present-day China, it is a bold and breathtakingly ambitious work of fiction that uses the story of a single family to capture the way we live now"-- Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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This book has an interesting premise, but sometimes the language got in the way of the message. This may well have been deliberate, but here's an example of a sentence that got a bit overblown for my taste: Actually, scrap what I just said. This is deliberate - it's Jamie's voice, not Marche's, and this language is typical of his complex, synthetic life. I'll just shut up now and give the book another star. ( )