The Mark and the Void (eBook, ePUB)
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Partner: | buecher.de |
Hersteller: | Penguin Books Ltd (Murray, Paul) |
Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
A comic masterpiece about love, art, greed and the banking crisis, from the author of Skippy Dies What links the Investment Bank of Torabundo, www.myhotswaitress.com (yes, hots with an s, don´t ask), an art heist, a novel called For the Love of a Clown, a four-year-old boy named after TV detective Remington Steele, a lonely French banker, a tiny Pacific island, and a pest control business run by an ex-KGB man? You guessed it . . . The Mark and the Void is Paul Murray´s madcap new novel of institutional folly, following the success of his wildly original breakout hit, Skippy Dies . While marooned at his banking job in the bewilderingly damp and insular realm known as Ireland, Claude Martingale is approached by a down-on-his-luck author, Paul, looking for his next great subject. Claude finds that his life gets steadily more exciting under Paul´s fictionalizing influence; he even falls in love with a beautiful waitress. But Paul´s plan is not what it seems-and neither is Claude´s employer, the Bank of Torabundo, which inflates through dodgy takeovers and derivatives-trading until-well, you can probably guess how that shakes out. The Mark and the Void is a stirring examination of the deceptions carried out in the names of art, love and commerce - and is also probably the funniest novel ever written about a financial crisis.
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