Mournful Numbers - Hardcover

Goldstein, Frank R.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1880664089 ISBN 13: 9781880664087

Publisher: E M Pr, 1995

Synopsis

Richard Graham, a Washington-based executive, becomes caught up in the world of Leon Davis, a charismatic motivational guru, and becomes estranged from his family and career

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From Publishers Weekly:

A Washington, D.C., real-estate executive comes under the spell of a motivational guru in this brisk, compelling debut. Falling for Leon Davis's glib routine of forceful-sounding platitudes and take-charge techniques (``Your life will work. It will be an epic''), corporate v-p Richard Graham recklessly overhauls his life: he has an extramarital affair with a sexy coworker, buys a Mercedes (which promptly gets carjacked), smacks his unruly young son in the face and clashes with rival executives eager to oust him during the firm's merger. How Graham, unaware of his own arrogance and naivete, loses his wife and his job, and nearly his identity, is the theme of this subtle yet devastating study of psychological manipulation and blind faith. Though Goldstein undermines his narrative with insufficiently developed characters (Graham's mistress and discontented wife are generic) and perfunctory explorations of yoga and zen, he writes with an uncanny eye for the pressures, role-playing and turf wars of corporate life.

Copyright 1995 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: E M Pr
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 1880664089
• ISBN 13: 9781880664087
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 127