Union Atlantic - Tapa dura

"It's remarkable how successfully "Union Atlantic" -- so unlike [his] stories in structure and style, and so much broader in scope -- continues the nuance of Haslett's earlier characterizations. . . Swiftly and confidently, Haslett unwinds the ball of yarn that is the global financial crisis to reveal its core: a knot of ineluctable yearnings and individual needs."--"New York Times Book Review" "Adam Haslett . . . may be our F. Scott Fitzgerald, an author capable of memorializing our crash in all its personal cost and lurid beauty. Hist first novel, "Union Atlantic," is a strange, elegant story that illuminates the financial and moral calamity of the young 21st century. . . [A] profound, strikingly intelligent story about the cost of living in a world in which real values have been supplanted by a fiat currency of self-interest and empty promises."--"Washington Post Book World" "An ambitious literary work, filled with compelling characters, evocative prose and finely drawn portraiture. . . "Union Atlantic" is the first serious fictional portrait of the bailout era. . . Decades from now, this fine novel will help readers understand the period we've just been through."--"Wall Street Journal" "Exceedingly well written. . . a high-spirited, slyly astute exploration of our great bottoming out."--"Boston Globe" "The first great novel of the new century. It's big and ambitious, like novels used to be. It's about us, now. All of us."--"Esquire"""Union Atlantic" is an indispensable book of the new century, because no book has nailed the new century so squarely."""--"GQ""Adam Haslett's page-turner of a debut novel ranges brilliantly from the Strait of Hormuz to the outskirts of Boston to the belly of the financial beast--New York's Federal Reserve. It explains to me, with humor and style and generosity, how we became America in the year 2009. A must read."--Gary Shteyngart "Adam Haslett has the rar

Doug Fanning lives an apparently gilded existence. A Gulf war veteran turned banker at the vast investment bank Union Atlantic, he is wealthy, handsome and powerful - the epitome of Wall Street success. Charlotte Graves lives in self-imposed exile deep in the forests of rural Massachusetts, stubbornly refusing to engage with a country she feels to be in morally bankrupt. When Fanning decides to build himself a sprawling mansion adjacent to her home, her isolation is threatened and she determines to evict him from his land and, if she can, his kind from her country.Union Atlantic is a deeply involving novel of the modern world - a world in crisis, where individual humanity is pitted against the global marketplace, and we must decide what, in the end, we value most highly.