Diary of a Very Bad Year: Confessions of an Anonymous Hedge Fund Manager (Häftad)
avN+1, Keith Gessen
ISBN: 9780061965302 - UTGIVEN: 2010-06The First Book from n+1--an Essential Chronicle of Our Financial CrisisHFM: Where are you going to buy protection on the U.S. government's credit? I mean, if the U.S. defaults, what bank is going to be able to make good on that contract? Who are you going to buy that contract from, the Martians?n+1:[...]
All the Sad Young Literary Men (Storpocket)
avKeith Gessen
ISBN: 9780099513193 - UTGIVEN: 2009-04A charming yet scathing portrait of young adulthood at the opening of the twenty-first century, All the Sad Young Literary Men charts the lives of Sam, Mark, and Keith, as they overthink their college years, underthink their love lives, and struggle through the encouragement of the women who love an[...]
All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays (Häftad)
avGeorge Orwell, Keith Gessen, George Packer
ISBN: 9780156033077 - UTGIVEN: 200910As a critic, George Orwell cast a wide net. Equally at home discussing Charles Dickens and Charlie Chaplin, he moved back and forth across the porous borders between essay and journalism, high art and low. A frequent commentator on literature, language, film, and drama throughout his career, Orwell [...]
Lucky Jim (Häftad)
avKingsley Amis, Keith Gessen
ISBN: 9781590175750 - UTGIVEN: 201210Regarded by many as the finest, and funniest, comic novel of the twentieth century, "Lucky Jim" remains as trenchant, withering, and eloquently misanthropic as when it first scandalized readers in 1954. This is the story of Jim Dixon, a hapless lecturer in medieval history at a provincial university[...]
A Dead Man's Memoir (Pocket)
avMikhail Afanasevich Bulgakov, Andrew (TRN) Bromfield, Keith (INT) Gessen
ISBN: 9780140455144 - UTGIVEN: 2007-12A semi-autobiographical novel by the Russian author best known for The Master and the Margarita describes a writer's failure to sell his novel and then his inability to commit suicide, as well as his discovery of the unexpected consequences of literary success when his play is accepted for a theatri[...]
