This Bleeding City - Softcover

Preston, Alex

3.31

263 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571251714 ISBN 13: 9780571251711

Publisher: Faber & Faber, 2011

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Winner of the Spear's First Book Award and the Edinburgh Festival Reader's Choice Award.
Charlie Wales is a young man who wants everything. Fresh from University, he’s seduced by the excitement of a new life in London and all that it promises. There’s Vero, the beautiful French girl who might finally fall for him. There’s the lure of art, but also the promise of fast money in the City. And his friends, who are spiralling into a world of non-stop parties and unchecked greed. But as the choices begin to tear him apart, there’s also the danger that all the things he desires are on the brink of crashing around him ... This debut novel, written by a 30-year-old trader, does not merely pick over the carcass of the financial markets in the wake of the recent crash. It is also a heartbreaking love story, a withering study of the years of excess, and a timely reminder of how good people end up doing terrible things.

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'The best thing about Alex Preston's impressive first novel is its wonderfully lucid and compelling telling of the collapse of the markets. Preston was a bond trader but, happily, he's far more concerned with bringing emotional sense to the crash than elucidating financial intricacies ... Preston depicts the impending financial crash with a wonderfully sickening inexorability, bringing a heightened consonance to a real-life.' --Observer

'This is a smartly written portrait of youthful insecurities and timeless folly.' --Independent

'Challenging, frightening, heartbreaking and brilliantly gripping.' --Easy Living

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Winner of the Spear's First Book Award and the Edinburgh Festival Reader's Choice Award.

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