The year is 2003. Ved, a 36-year-old Indian in Silicon Valley, works for Omnicon, the worldβs largest computer networking company whose culture he finds both sad and comical. Its quietly brewing troubles soon engulf him, even as he must deal with the turmoil in his relationships with Sasha, a Russia
A California closing: a novel
β Scribed by Robert Wintner
- Publisher
- Skyhorse Publishing;Yucca Publishing
- Year
- 2016
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 173 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1631580949
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β¦ Synopsis
The Pulitzer Prize-nominated author "has penned a hilariously entertaining send-up of the many excesses of life in affluent California . . . Wonderfully entertaining" (The White Rhino Report).
Big M OK Used Car magnate Michael Mulroney never set out to be heroic. He lives at the top, naturally, thanks to instinct, wit, and the will to win. Insolvency is not the same as poverty; poverty is for poor people. And a man of proven dexterity is not poor. He beats the practical challenges of life in the Golden Stateβof fickle markets, lowballers, long-toothed real-estate women, name droppers, fitness compulsives, sexual-molestation charges, and the ten-percent grade up Hazel Dell on a bicycle four days in a rowβat sixty!
Samson slew a thousand philistines with the jawbone of an ass. Michael Mulroney may be more deliberate in sussing out a situation, measuring a mark for front-end warmth, background development, schmoozing up and...
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