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DeLillo, Don.
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Financial executives -- Fiction.
Young men -- Fiction.
Murder victims -- Fiction.
Foreign exchange market -- Fiction.
Self-destructive behavior -- Fiction.
New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction.
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DeLillo, Don.
Financial executives -- Fiction.
Young men -- Fiction.
Murder victims -- Fiction.
Foreign exchange market -- Fiction.
Self-destructive behavior -- Fiction.
New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction.
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Cosmopolis : a novel / Don DeLillo.
by
DeLillo, Don.
Scribner, 2003.
Call #:
FICTION
DEL
Subjects
Financial
executives
--
Fiction
.
Young men
--
Fiction
.
Murder victims
--
Fiction
.
Foreign exchange market
--
Fiction
.
Self-destructive behavior
--
Fiction
.
New York (N.Y.)
--
Fiction
.
ISBN:
9780743244251 (2004 trade pbk.)
0743244249
Description:
209 p. ; 23 cm.
Summary:
It is an April day in the year 2000 and an era is about to end
--
those booming times of market optimism when the culture boiled with money and corporations seemed more vital and influential than governments. Eric Packer, a billionaire asset manager at age twenty-eight, emerges from his penthouse triplex and settles into his lavishly customized white stretch limousine. On this day he is a man with two missions: to pursue a cataclysmic bet against the yen and to get a haircut across town. His journey to the barbershop is a contemporary odyssey, funny and fast-moving. Stalled in traffic by a presidential motorcade, a music idol's funeral and a violent political demonstration, Eric receives a string of visitors
--
his experts on security, technology, currency, finance and theory. Sometimes he leaves the car for sexual encounters and sometimes he doesn't have to.
Genre:
Psychological
fiction
.
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