Yates is a Futurist.Which is a fancy way of saying he flies around the world, lecturing various conferences, confabs, and conglomerates, dispensing prepackaged bullshit in an attempt to stay just ahead of the latest trend and claim he saw it first. But now Yates has lost faith in the very future tha
The futures: a novel
โ Scribed by Anna Pitoniak
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company;A Lee Boudreaux Book
- Year
- 2017
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 198 KB
- Edition
- First edition
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ Synopsis
In this dazzling debut novel about love and betrayal, a young couple moves to New York City in search of success --only to learn that the lives they dream of may come with dangerous strings attached.
"This winter's cathartic read: a story that feels familiar yet wholly original, like every heartbreak ever."--_Marie Claire
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"An emotional page-turner"--_Cosmopolitan
_ A Popsugar Winter Read pick _
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Julia and Evan fall in love as undergraduates at Yale. For Evan, a scholarship student from a rural Canadian town, Yale is a whole new world, and Julia --blond, beautiful, and rich--fits perfectly into the future he's envisioned for himself. After graduation, and on the eve of the great financial meltdown of 2008, they move together to New York City, where Evan lands a job at a hedge fund. But Julia, whose privileged upbringing grants her an easy but wholly unsatisfying job with a nonprofit, feels increasingly shut...
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