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Union Atlantic

Union Atlantic

by Adam Haslett (Author)

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    Hardcover 2010

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Synopsis

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.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 320
 Publisher: Tuskar Rock
Published: 01 Jul 2010
ISBN 10: 1848874979
ISBN 13: 9781848874978

Media Reviews
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
Author Bio
Adam Haslett is the author of the short story collection, You Are Not A Stranger Here, was a New York Times bestseller. It was shortlisted for both the Pulitzer Prize and the US National Book Award, and has been translated into fifteen languages. His essays and fiction have appeared in The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Best American Short Stories, among others. He lives in New York.