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Junk
β Scribed by Ayad Akhtar
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- Year
- 2017
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 71 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Coming to Broadway this fall in the Lincoln Center Theater production starring Steven Pasquale **
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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Disgraced, a fast-paced economic thriller that exposes the financial deal making behind the mergers and acquisitions boom of the 1980s.
Set in 1985, Junk tells the story of Robert Merkin, resident genius of the upstart investment firm Sacker Lowell. Hailed as "America's Alchemist," his proclamation that "debt is an asset" has propelled him to a dizzying level of success. By orchestrating the takeover of a massive steel manufacturer, Merkin intends to do the "deal of the decade," the one that will rewrite all the rules. Working on his broadest canvas to date, Pulitzer Prize winner Ayad Akhtar chronicles the lives of men and women engaged in financial civil war: insatiable investors, threatened workers, killer lawyers, skeptical journalists, and ambitious federal prosecutors. Although...
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