Cosmopolis
a novel
About this book
"Eric Packer, a billionaire asset manager at age twenty-eight, emerges from his penthouse triplex and settles into his lavishly customized white stretch limousine. On this day he is a man with two missions: to pursue a cataclysmic bet against the yen and to get a haircut across town.".
"His journey to the barbershop is a contemporary odyssey, funny and fast-moving. Stalled in traffic by a presidential motorcade, a music idol's funeral and a violent political demonstration, Eric receives a string of visitors - his experts on security, technology, currency, finance and theory. Sometimes he leaves the car for sexual encounters and sometimes he doesn't have to."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects
- 18.06 anglo-american literature
- american fiction (fictional works by one author)
- billionaires
- comportement autodestructeur
- fiction
- fiction, psychological
- foreign exchange market
- jeunes hommes
- lithuanian fiction
- marché des changes
- markets
- murder victims
- new york (n.y.), fiction
- new york times reviewed
- psychological fiction
- roman américain
- romans, nouvelles
- self-destructive behavior
- translations from english
- victimes d'homicide
- victims of crimes
- young men