Human Capital - Hardcover

Amidon, Stephen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0374173508 ISBN 13: 9780374173500

Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2004

Synopsis

Drew Hagel's financial decline is halted by his relationship with hedge fund manager Quint Manning, but the relationship between Drew's and Quint's teenage children bears the most fruit when an accident involving the two promises a big payoff.

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Review:

"Amidon nails it. . . . "Human Capital is terrific."--"The Washington Post Book World "A splendid novel with the satiric bite of "Bonfire of the Vanities . . . terribly well-realized."--"The Seattle Times "Amidon's novel is a wonderfully wicked satire on a twenty- first Century gilded age. . . . His book is more than just one family's story. It's a portrait of a whole society caught in the dead end that everyone insists will lead somewhere after all."--"Chicago Tribune"
"A gripping, troubling, and incisive portrait of the way we live now . . . has the ambitious sweep and narrative power of a nineteenth-century novel."--Tom Perrotta, author of "Little Children

"Amidon nails it. . . . "Human Capital" is terrific."--"The Washington Post Book World"
"A splendid novel with the satiric bite of "Bonfire of the Vanities" . . . terribly well-realized."--"The Seattle Times"
"Amidon's novel is a wonderfully wicked satire on a twenty- first Century gilded age. . . . His book is more than just one family's story. It's a portrait of a whole society caught in the dead end that everyone insists will lead somewhere after all."--"Chicago Tribune"
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""A gripping, troubling, and incisive portrait of the way we live now . . . has the ambitious sweep and narrative power of a nineteenth-century novel."--Tom Perrotta, author of "Little Children"

Amidon nails it. . . . "Human Capital" is terrific. "The Washington Post Book World"

A splendid novel with the satiric bite of "Bonfire of the Vanities" . . . terribly well-realized. "The Seattle Times"

Amidon's novel is a wonderfully wicked satire on a twenty- first Century gilded age. . . . His book is more than just one family's story. It's a portrait of a whole society caught in the dead end that everyone insists will lead somewhere after all. "Chicago Tribune"

A gripping, troubling, and incisive portrait of the way we live now . . . has the ambitious sweep and narrative power of a nineteenth-century novel. "Tom Perrotta, author of Little Children""

-Amidon nails it. . . . Human Capital is terrific.- --The Washington Post Book World

-A splendid novel with the satiric bite of Bonfire of the Vanities . . . terribly well-realized.- --The Seattle Times

-Amidon's novel is a wonderfully wicked satire on a twenty- first Century gilded age. . . . His book is more than just one family's story. It's a portrait of a whole society caught in the dead end that everyone insists will lead somewhere after all.- --Chicago Tribune

-A gripping, troubling, and incisive portrait of the way we live now . . . has the ambitious sweep and narrative power of a nineteenth-century novel.- --Tom Perrotta, author of Little Children

"Amidon nails it. . . . Human Capital is terrific." --The Washington Post Book World

"A splendid novel with the satiric bite of Bonfire of the Vanities . . . terribly well-realized." --The Seattle Times

"Amidon's novel is a wonderfully wicked satire on a twenty- first Century gilded age. . . . His book is more than just one family's story. It's a portrait of a whole society caught in the dead end that everyone insists will lead somewhere after all." --Chicago Tribune

"A gripping, troubling, and incisive portrait of the way we live now . . . has the ambitious sweep and narrative power of a nineteenth-century novel." --Tom Perrotta, author of Little Children

From the Back Cover:

'Amidon's absorbing novel is distinguished above all by its
taut, compelling plot, one hinged by intriguing moral ambiguities' The
Sunday Times

'Amidon has achieved the rare alchemy of creating a novel charged with
suspense from the lives of ordinary suburban families; it's also an
unflinching social commentary that has the potential to endure as a clear
and literate portrait of its time' Observer

'A brilliant examination of the undertow of sadness and desperation that
tugs at the American dream' New Statesman

'It's got more sex, booze and drama than The OC!' New Woman

About this edition

• Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0374173508
• ISBN 13: 9780374173500
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 375