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A dazzling, dizzying debut - a high-speed American tragicomedy and philosophical investigation into the nature of retail, sex and adulthood from an astonishing new talent.
Bobby Clark is just sixteen when he drops out of school to follow his big brother Jim into the jewellery business. Bobby idolises Jim and, from the moment he steps off the plane from Canada, he's in awe of Jim's girlfriend Lisa, the best saleswoman at the Fort Worth Deluxe Diamond Exchange. Under their tutelage, Bobby is determined to learn all he can.
How to Sell is the story of a young man's education in the two oldest human passions, love and money. It charts the swift rise of the Clark brothers and tallies the cost of their success on everyone around them, especially on the woman who becomes a lover to both men. Through the lens of this classic tragedy, Martin captures the luxury business in all its exquisite vulgarity, finding in the diamond and watch trade a metaphor for the American soul at work.
How to Sell is a marvel of economy, observation, and emotional truth, from a writer whose skills and story arrive fully formed.
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Dirty, greatly original, and very hard to stop reading (Jonathan Franzen)
With this fast, dark novel, Clancy Martin shows there's no reason why a former jeweler who translates Nietzsche can't write like an angel on meth (Bloomberg)
A funny, quirky takedown of the American dream. A bastard child of John Updike and Mordechai Richler, HOW TO SELL grabs you by the tuchus and doesn't let go (Gary Shteyngart)
Succeeds in the most important way a novel can: it makes a previously unimagined world as real as your own. A wonderful debut (John Niven, author of KILL YOUR FRIENDS)
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With this fast, dark novel, Clancy Martin shows there's no reason why a former jeweler who translates Nietzsche can't write like an angel on meth (Bloomberg)
HOW TO SELL is a bleak, funny, unforgiving novel about how we buy and sell everything -
merchandise, drugs, sex, trust, power, peace of mind, religion, friendship, and each other. It's written extremely finely, with wit and enviable self-control. A genuinely fresh, disconcerting voice
(Zadie Smith)A funny, quirky takedown of the American dream. A bastard child of John Updike and Mordechai Richler, HOW TO SELL grabs you by the tuchus and doesn't let go (Gary Shteyngart)
Succeeds in the most important way a novel can: it makes a previously unimagined world as real as your own. A wonderful debut (John Niven, author of KILL YOUR FRIENDS)
A dazzling, dizzying debut - a high-speed American tragicomedy from an astonishing new talent.
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- EditoreHarvill Secker
- Data di pubblicazione2009
- ISBN 10 1846552885
- ISBN 13 9781846552885
- RilegaturaCopertina flessibile
- Numero di pagine304
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Descrizione libro Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Corners bumped, inside clean with no damage. Minor shelf wear. Next day dispatch. International delivery available. 1000's of satisfied customers! Please contact us with any enquiries. Codice articolo mon0000072136
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Descrizione libro Paperback. Condizione: Like New. Publisher: Harvill Secker, London, 2009. First Softcover Edition, First Printing. FINE softcover book in illustrated wraps, as issued. PRISTINE. As New. Unread. NOT remainder marked. NOT faded. NOT a book club edition. NOT an ex-library copy. Codice articolo SKU1014569
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