Overview
In this Pygmalion tale of a novelist turned bond trader, Martha McPhee brings to life the greed and riotous wealth of New York during the heady days of the second gilded age. India Palmer, living the cash-strapped existence of the writer, is visiting wealthy friends in Maine when a yellow biplane swoops down from the clear blue sky to bring a stranger into her life, one who will change everything.The stranger isWin Johns, a swaggering and intellectually bored trader of mortgage- backed securities. Charmed by Indiaās intelligence, humor, and inquisitive natureāand aware of her near-desperate financial situationāWin poses a proposition: āGive me eighteen months and Iāll make you a world-class bond trader.ā Shedding her artistās life with surprising ease, India embarks on a raucous ride to the top of the income chain, leveraging herself with crumbling real estate, never once looking back . . .Or does she?
With a light-handed irony that is by turns as measured as Claire Messudās and as biting as Tom Wolfeās, Martha McPhee tells the classic American story of people reinventing themselves, unaware of the price they must pay for their transformation.
This book title, Dear Money, ISBN: 9780547422541, by Martha McPhee, published by HMH Books (May 10, 2011) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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