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The Trick: Why Some People Can Make Money and Other People Can't

Autor William Leith
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 17 feb 2021
'Hugely enjoyable' - Observer'Spectacular' - Aaron Brown, author of The Poker Face of Wall StreetSome people can make money. Other people can't. It's a thought that makes William Leith wake up in a cold sweat. He doesn't know why it makes him feel anxious. After all, money isn't real. We created it. Humans did. It's our masterpiece. But the desire for it is killing us. It is this dilemma that sets William Leith off on an adventure into the bizarre, morally dubious, yet highly desirable world of the mega-rich. He spends a day with the real-life Wolf of Wall Street who, not content with his hundreds of millions, devised a fraud so he could make hundreds of millions more. He visits a Baroque mansion where a Russian half-billionaire lives alone with his butler. He tours the estate of Felix Dennis, the maverick tycoon who commissioned an avenue of statues to tell the story of his life. He flies to private islands on private jets, meets private men in private clubs, experiencing the dizzy highs of a life without limits - but all it does is give him crippling anxiety. Throughout it all he asks himself: what makes these people wealthy? And how come I'm not?
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780747599456
ISBN-10: 0747599459
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.16 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Publishing
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

A regular writer for the Guardian, Observer and Spectator, Leith has a strong profile in the media, and his memoir The Hungry Years has sold over 25,000 copies to date (TCM)

Notă biografică

William Leith has worked as a columnist and feature writer at the Independent on Sunday, the Mail on Sunday and the Observer. His writing spans a wide range of subjects, from food to celebrity, cosmetic surgery, fashion and film. He has written about kings in Africa, political tension in Palestine, nightlife in Bangkok, Hollywood film directors, diet gurus and the death of James Dean. He is the author of The Hungry Years, Bits of Me Are Falling Apart and The Cut that Wouldn't Heal: Finding my Father.

Recenzii

The Trick takes all of Leith's writing habits - his mazy streams of consciousness (few writers are quite so enamoured of, or good at, watching themselves think) and his love of axiom - and, if anything, ups the ante... Hugely enjoyable
Part Hunter S. Thompson, part Montaigne: a blend of gonzo journalism and rambling reflection interspersed with learned references
Chummy, funny and genuinely interesting, The Trick has to be one of the best books about money around
Spectacular ... The Trick takes us on a fevered thrill ride through the heads of the richest people in the world, plus some of the most accomplished risk-takers, to answer the eternal question, why does money stick to thee, and not to me?
Most books about the uber-wealthy portray them either as superheroes to be unquestioningly admired or as obsessive psychopathic idiots. The joy of this book is how beautifully it walks the narrow line between the two
A superb book ... Leith has always been one of our best non-fiction writers and this is his crowning achievement
As a memoir and as comedy, it succeeds beautifully ... As a confessional, it is pretty much a masterclass - frank, tough-minded, funny, generous
Resembles an expertly-paced stand-up routine ... Positively Izzard-esque
Leith offers a tour of his own frantic inner world, reflecting on a dizzying array of subjects ... These range from cowboys and gangsters to the feeding habits of chimpanzees. His metastasising anecdotes and revelations are deeply personal, often wilfully tangential and always thought-provoking
[Leith's] passages about his multiple overlapping neuroses are touched by comic genius . Leith offers sharply comical observations about both the lure and absurdity of great wealth

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