A Young Mans Guide to Late Capitalism

Posted on 05 July 2018 by Peter Mountford

On his first assignment for a rapacious hedge fund, Gabriel embarks to Bolivia at the end of 2005 to ferret out insider information about the plans of the controversial president elect If Gabriel succeeds, he will get a bonus that would make him secure for life Standing in his way are his headstrong mother, herself a survivor of Pinochet s Chile, and Gabriel s new love interest, the president s passionate press liaison Caught in a growing web of lies and questioning his own role in profiting from an impoverished people, Gabriel sets in motion a terrifying plan that could cost him the love of all those he holds dear.In the tradition of Martin Amis, Joshua Ferris, and Sam Lipsyte set against the stunning mountainous backdrop of La Paz and interspersed with Bolivia s sad history of stubborn survival Peter Mountford examines the critical choices a young man makes as his world closes in on him. Best Download [ A Young Mans Guide to Late Capitalism ] author [ Peter Mountford ] – kino-fada.fr Bolivia Hedge funds You can t fault this book for being run of the mill None of that American suburban angst blah blah blah go to the mall, have a drink, etc , and none of that If It s Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium Europe yet again stuff, either La Paz, of all places And a young Americano who wants to make a lot of money in a hurry because he cannot believe his good luck, being newly employed by a rapacious hedge fund wait, is that redundant.Thing is, he needs information, and he ten Bolivia Hedge funds You can t fault this book for being run of the mill None of that American suburban angst blah blah blah go to the mall, have a drink, etc , and none of that If It s Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium Europe yet again stuff, either La Paz, of all places And a young Americano who wants to make a lot of money in a hurry because he cannot believe his good luck, being newly employed by a rapacious hedge fund wait, is that redundant.Thing is, he needs information, and he tends to sleep with women who have access to it, and, you know, you don t shit where you eat and all that, so look out world, here comes a South American version of the morality play Will he Won t he Will SHE Won t she God or the Bolivian bellhop only knows.If you like plot, plot, plot, this book is not, not, not what you want It s a characterization book and, considering Mountford is a first time novelist, a pretty darn good one Our young 20 something hero i...Stunningly well written book that left me deep in thought at the conclusion No doubt in my mind this one will be showing up on award lists as a winner I ve rarely wished I knew someone who read the same book, but today I do Incredible first novel, I will watch for his next, that s for sure Will be recommending this one to our college s book club as one of those books that begs for discussion afterwards This book was so good, I ll make sure it is in our local library Note This book was pro Stunningly well written book that left me deep in thought at the conclusion No doubt in my mind this one will be showing up on award lists as a winner I ve rarely wished I knew so...There is something about picking up a book I don t know anything about and finding it resonates with me This is a book like that It s set in La Paz, Bolivia, a city I once spent a week visiting Mountford describes this city exactly as I experienced it as an American traveler The main character lives in a hotel room near where my friends live there, and he walks streets I walked and visits cafes I visited there And he experiences them so similarly to the way I felt about them that it s a lit There is something about picking up a book I don t know anything about and finding it resonates with me This is a book like that It s set in La Paz, Bolivia, a city I once spent a week visiting Mountford describes this city exactly as I experienced it as an American traveler The main character lives in a hotel room near where my friends live there, and he walks streets I walked and visits cafes I visited there And he experiences them so similarly to the way I felt about them that it s a little eery In a comforting way.I ve been asked what s it about when I ve recommended the book to friends, and really, this book is about everything It s about love, and finding your own way in the world, and figuring out what love means and how to find it and how to deal with keeping it or with losing it It s about how to value yourself, and others, and how bad some of us can be at treating people well It s written exactly right the characters are crafted without being overly fictional th...My brother gave me this book to read because it s about an ambiguously Hispanic guy named Gaby He said he thinks it s a guy book , but I loved it whatever that means This is the best modern novel I ve read in awhile Just one of those can t put it down, made me laugh then made me cry, really rea...In one chapter of my forthcoming biography of Robert Ripley, I recount the eccentric, world traveling Believe It or Not cartoonist s months long journey through South America in 1925, during which Ripley writes that Bolivia s sky high capital, La Paz, looked as if someone had flung the city of Reno into the Grand Canyon So when fellow Seattleite Peter Mountford, a friend of a former newspaper colleague, offered to send me an advance copy of his first novel, which takes place in La Paz in late In one chapter of my forthcoming biography of Robert Ripley, I recount the eccentric, world traveling Believe It or Not cartoonist s months long journey through South America in 1925, during which Ripley writes that Bolivia s sky high capital, La Paz, looked as if someone had flung the city of Reno into the Grand Canyon So when fellow Seattleite Peter Mountford, a friend of a former newspaper colleague, offered to send me an advance copy of his first novel, which takes place in La Paz in late 2005, I figured I d skim the book and see what had become of the city Ripley called the most startling sight I have ever seen What an unexpected treat, then, to discover that Mountford is a smart, gifted writer, and a real craftsman He tells the story of a transformational month in the life of Gabriel de Boya, an eager but conflicted young researcher for...This novel is beautifully written, replete with large themes and small insights, and Mountford s deftly worded explanations about the workings of a hedge fund in a small third world country is a college course in itself I found myself fascinated by Gabriel, the main character he reads to me, for much of the book, like the hero I want to be smart, crafty, appealing and attractive, and able to succeed at making, in his words, a s load of money And while the reader hopes and expects that he This novel is beautifully written, replete with large themes and small insi...My complaints with the novel are really around the use of the women as stand ins for the political conflicts, and sex as the vehicle for plot twists This seems shallow and, even for someone with Gabriel s background, a bit too convenient, and too close to a Matt Damon or Tom Cruise movie.Nonetheless, the novel seems dead on in its description of the wearying life of the expatriate press and IMF World Bank reps, who are always metaphorically in Joan Didion s or Pico Iyer s airport lounge, always My complaints with the novel are really around the use of the women as stand ins for the political conflicts, and sex as the vehicle for plot twists This seems shallow and, even for someone with Ga...I cruised through this book and I ve been thinking about it a lot since I finished it It s like a modernized Waiting for the Barbarians, but in reverse I simultaneously love and am depressed by what Mountford has to say about globalized capitalism and from a craft point of view, this novel did a fine job of creating a genuinely unlikeable narrator and still making me care about what happens to him I m struggling with this on a project of my own so I took lots of notes on this point Nat K I cruised through this book and I ve been thinking about it a lot since I finished it It s like a modernized Waiting for the Barbarians, but in reverse I simultaneously love and am depressed by what Mountford has to say about globalized capitalism and from a craft point of view, this novel did a fine job of creating a genuinely unlikeable narrator and still making me care about what happens t...By Gabriel BlackwellFor The Literary ReviewVolume 54 Emo, Meet Hole I am as fascinated by AE s reality show Hoarders as I am terrified by it I fear this compulsion as I fear the cliff s edge I have no wish to throw myself off, but what if I suddenly did We say that compulsion is a slippery slope, as if we could ski to safety, but to me it seems a drop off Beware The fascination is in watching people lose the ground beneath their feet through a single moment s inattention Compulsion, l By Gabriel BlackwellFor The Literary ReviewVolume 54 Emo, Meet Hole I am as fascinated by AE s reality show Hoarders as I am terrified by it I fear this compulsion as I fear the cliff s edge I have no wish to throw myself off, but what if I suddenly did We say that compulsion is a slippery slope, as if we could ski to safety, but to me it seems a drop off Beware The fascination is in watching people lose the ground beneath their feet through a single moment s inattention Compulsion, like gravity, carries them the rest of the way I am not a hoarder, but neither were they before the unthinkable happened death or divorce, some sort of loss They try to fill the holes in their hearts with things, but keep coming up short, their homes become unintended accumulations that crowd out life rather than welcoming it in Gabriel Francisco de Boya, the young man of Peter Mountford s debut novel, A Young Man s Guide to Late Capitalism, seems to ha...This is a review I wrote for Bookslut Peter Mountford s debut novel, A Young Man s Guide to Late Capitalism, provides refreshing insight into the seemingly clear cut stories of unchecked corporate greed which have become ubiquitous in recent headlines Mountford s portrayal of Gabriel de Boya, a young hedge fund lackey who is seduced by the ethically sticky world of Big Finance, brings a much needed human element to the pervasive theme of big business avarice.Gabriel is on assignment in La Paz, This is a review I wrote for Bookslut Peter Mountford s debut novel, A Young Man s Guide to Late Capitalism, provides refreshing insight into the seemingly clear cut stories of unchecked corporate greed which have become ubiquitous in recent headlines Mountford s portrayal of Gabriel de Boya, a young hedge fund lackey who is seduced by the ethically sticky world of Big Finance, brings a much needed human element to the pervasive theme of big business avarice.Gabriel is on assignment in La Paz, posing as a political journalist as he scouts for Calloway, a ruthless New York hedge fund In exchange for sniffing out information about the newly elected progressive President Evo Morales s plans for oil distribution, Gabriel gets 19,500 a month The impressive salary also comes at the expense of his having to lie to the Boli...

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05 July 2018

Peter Mountford