The Fall Of Princes - Softcover

Goolrick, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1443444634 ISBN 13: 9781443444637

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers, 2015

Synopsis

In the spellbinding new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Robert Goolrick, 1980s Manhattan shimmers like the mirage it was, as money, power, and invincibility seduce a group of young Wall Street turks. Together they reach the pinnacle, achieving the kind of wealth that grants them access to anything―and anyone―they want. Until, one by one, they fall.

With the literary chops of Bonfire of the Vanities and the dizzying decadence of The Wolf of Wall Street, The Fall of Princes takes readers into a world of hedonistic highs and devastating lows, weaving a visceral tale about the lives of these young men, winners all . . . until someone changes the rules of the game. Goolrick paints an authentic portrait of an era, tense and stylish, perfectly mixing adrenaline and melancholy.

Stunning in its acute observations about great wealth and its absence, and deeply moving in its depiction of the ways in which these men learn to cope with both extremes, the novel travels from New York to Paris to Los Angeles to Italy to Las Vegas to London on a journey that is as seductive as it is starkly revealing, a true tour de force.

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From the Back Cover:

Acclaim for The Fall of Princes

“A heart-wrenching, beautiful, darkly comic, deeply necessary tale that stuns again and again with razor-sharp prose and glittering wit. Robert Goolrick is, without question, one of the greatest storytellers of our time.” —Téa Obreht, author of The Tiger’s Wife

“Compelling, wholly seductive . . . Goolrick’s stellar prose infuses this redemption story with a good deal of depth and despair, making it read like the literary version of The Wolf of Wall Street.” —Booklist

“Goolrick is a superb writer . . . He’s referred to his latest as both novel and autobiography; it carries both the artistic qualities of the former and the emotional truth of the latter . . . Goolrick is focused on the idea of loss and redemption, and shows the small ways by which we become human again.” —Kirkus Reviews

About the Author:

Robert Goolrick is the author of the novels A Reliable Wife (a #1 New York Times bestseller, licensed in 30 territories) and Heading Out to Wonderful, and the memoir The End of the World as We Know It.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1443444634
• ISBN 13: 9781443444637
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304