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I can't remember the last time I couldn't put a book down. I
read Dear Money in cars, in waiting rooms, even at a rest stop on
the turnpike. I read whole passages out loud to my husband. Martha
McPhee is a wickedly good social observer, a writer of beautiful,
lyrical prose, and a consummate storyteller. This is a very smart
novel that unpacks small surprises and pleasures on every single
page. --Dani Shapiro, author of Black & White
Martha McPhee writes with verve and uncanny insight about those
recent, heady dreams of easy wealth. This New York Pygmalian story
takes us beyond what we thought we knew about money and art and all
their precarious alliances, in an adventure that recreates the
city's temptations, both material and idealistic. Dear Money is
conceived with such cutting precision and grace, it will make
readers think of a contemporary Edith Wharton, but there's a dark
mischief here too, shades of Andy Warhol. Full of beautiful,
unflinching sentences, this is an uncompromising, brave, brilliant
story. --Rene Steinke, author of Holy Skirts
A skilled, always gripping satire of our foolish age. --Joseph
O'Neill, author of Netherland
内容简介
India Palmer, living the cash-strapped existence of the
writer, is visiting wealthy friends in Maine when a yellow biplane
swoops down from the clear blue sky to bring a stranger into her
life, one who will change everything. The stranger is Win Johns, a
swaggering and intellectually bored trader of mortgage-backed
securities. Charmed by India's intelligence, humor, and inquisitive
nature--and aware of her near-desperate financial situation--Win
poses a proposition: "Give me eighteen months and I'll make you a
world-class bond trader." Shedding her artist's life with
surprising ease, India embarks on a raucous ride to the top of the
income chain, leveraging herself with crumbling real estate, never
once looking back . . . Or does she?With a light-handed irony that
is by turns as measured as Claire Messud's and as biting as Tom
Wolfe's, Martha McPhee tells the classic American story of people
reinventing themselves, unaware of the price they must pay for
their transformation.