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Moral Hazard: A Novel
Kate Jennings Manufacturer: Harper Perennial ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0007154623 Release Date: 2003-05-27 |
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Kate Jennings's first novel, Snake, was praised for combining "dry comedy" and "genuine heartbreak"; now she has used the same sweet-and-sour recipe in her second book, Moral Hazard--but with even more raw ingredients. The heroine is thirtysomething Cath, a smiling, punning, do-gooding bien pensant who has somehow ended up in the vicious purlieus of Wall Street, dealing billions with the great white sharks of high finance. This unfeasibly high-powered employ contrasts sharply with Cath's home life. She's married to a man 25 years her senior: "sweet Bailey, dearest Bailey... optimistic where I was pessimistic, enthusiastic where I was distrustful." This marriage is not perfect: as Cath mordantly observes, "marriage is awful in its nearness. Yoked together, bound, in a three-legged race with no finishing line." Nevertheless Cath and Bailey, in their May/December way, have found a kind of happiness. Then, horribly, Bailey is diagnosed with Alzheimer's....Three chapters in we learn this terrible truth, and the rest of the book concerns Cath's desperate, affecting, sardonic, resolute ways and means of dealing with Bailey's rollercoaster ride to the inevitable--or even worse. It's not an easy journey; this is not the easiest of books. What largely rescues the whole from being a whiny or self-pitying lament is the prose: humorous, energetic, sharp, urbane, and vivid. --Sean Thomas, Amazon.co.uk
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On Wall Street, reflects Cath, women are about as welcome as fleas in a sleeping bag. Funny, liberal and left-leaning, she is an unlikely candidate to be writing speeches on derivatives in a Manhattan tower, 'putting words in the mouths of plutocrats deeply suspicious of metaphors and words of more than two syllables'. She finds herself on Wall Street because she needs serious money. After ten good years, her beloved older husband Bailey is suffering from Alzheimer's.So begins Cath's journey into two nightmare worlds. By day she deals with the topsy-turvy logic and ingrown personalities at work in high finance; by night she has to watch the slow disintegration of the man she loves. In between, she must stop herself from falling apart. As the money markets hurtle towards financial meltdown, Cath faces personal disaster and a moral hazard that she cannot ignore.Kate Jennings' prose is lean yet rich in unexpected, telling detail. Tense, taut and compulsively readable, Moral Hazard is peopled by extraordinary characters and informed by a mordant, witty intelligence.Customer Reviews:
IN THE BELLY OF THE BEAST.......2003-11-18
Moral Hazard by Kate Jennings is an excellent work. It was critical of big business behavior without sacrificing story or preaching. It also retains a human element in the scenes with Cath and her stricken husband as he gradually deteriorates into a man she no longer knows. The satire in it is also humorous. It explodes the myth that Wall Street bankers know what they are doing and reveals them as paranoid, helpless, and corrupt investors who blow with the wind of rumors. I think we have already seen in real life what happens when markets are left to regulate themselves. This book is a great short read.
MORAL HAZARD blinks yellow warning lights!.......2002-10-02
Read this book. Even by the second chapter, you'll understand you are entering a world that is mad as a hatter, only that the diagnosed alzheimer patient (the author's husband) is way more lucid than the bulls (the author's bosses) who ram Wall Street down our economic throats. Moral Hazard blinks yellow warning lights even when the words slice into neat little pats of cold butter on warm toast at breakfast. This makes the story edible in deceptively gentle prose. What seems like a peculiar combination of subjects is - dementia on Wall Street countered by a beloved husband's alzheimers' trials and indignities. Somehow the two stories fit hand in glove and come out swinging the reader into black-eyed shame for our dual neglect of an aging population, and withering pension funds ground into dust by tassle-shoed Big Toes. There's more, but then, that would be telling. Read Moral Hazard for yourself. I did. Twice.
very disappointed.......2002-08-11
A Witty Woman Languishes Among Rapacious Madmen.......2002-07-18
UNIQUE, MOVING AND INCISIVE.......2002-06-10
With "Moral Hazard" Ms. Jennings offers, if you will, a morality/mortality tale in which the madness of the world of high finance (appropriate considering Enron) and the delusional states of Alzheimer's disease stand cheek by jowl, emphasizing the similarities.
Cath, a freelance writer in her forties, is happily married to Bailey, a creative soul in his mid sixties. "He was always doing, always curious," she says. "He surrounded me with warmth." When he is diagnosed as being in the early stages of Alzheimer's it becomes quickly apparent that she cannot provide the care he will need on their current income.
Therefore she finds work at Niedecker on Wall Street although she is "an unlikely candidate for the job of executive speechwriter, to be putting words in the mouths of plutocrats deeply suspicious of metaphors and words of more than two syllables."
Cath's guide through the miasma of high finance and cutthroat office maneuvering is Mike, a caustic, voluble risk manager. The two became friends on the day of Nixon's funeral, which was declared a holiday on Wall Street. Mike's tutelage proves invaluable, as he advises her to stop bucking the firm lest she be broken. "Round off your sharp edges," he counsels, "Turn yourself into an anthropologist."
At home she faces the inevitability of Bailey's decline. Initially anti-psychotic medicine is prescribed. Then, after consulting a line up of professionals Cath determines that Bailey must be relegated to a nursing home. He, of course, cries, weeps, "recoiling in horror,,,,,beyond comfort" when he is left in "...a place where behavior was infantile, instincts animal. A place of last things."
In due time, while he never makes peace with his surroundings, Bailey does make a friend in the home. She is Dolly, another Alzheimer's patient with a penchant for brilliant colors and black patent leather shoes. When confined to a wheelchair, Bailey finds a second friend in Gwen, a Jamaican private aid hired by Cath. An intuitive caregiver, Gwen lavishes him with affection and treats him with respect.
"Moral Hazard" is a unique story, both moving and incisive as it explores the worlds of trade and sickness with insight, compassion, and humor. A former senior speechwriter at an investment bank, Ms. Jennings well knows of what she writes, and she does it with incomparable precision...
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Moral Economy and American Realistic Novels (Modern American Literature, Vol 2)
Da Zheng Manufacturer: Peter Lang Pub Inc ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 082042773X |
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Moral Hazard : A Novel
Kate Jennings Manufacturer: Amazon Remainders Account ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000F6Z61W |
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Demon Awakens (DemonWars)
R.A. Salvatore Manufacturer: Del Rey ProductGroup: Book Binding: Mass Market Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0345421620 Release Date: 1998-02-28 |
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In THE DEMON AWAKENS, bestselling author R. A. Salvatore creates an astonishing new world for readers to explore--and an intrepid hero to lead the way: Elbryan Wynden, who must confront the dark tides of destiny in his epic search for justice and peace . . .Download Description
In The Demon Awakens, bestselling author R. A. Salvatore creates an astonishing new world for readers to explore -- and an intrepid hero to lead the way: Elbryan Wynden, who must confront the dark tides of destiny in his epic search for justice and peace...
A great evil has awakened in the land of Corona, a terrible demon determined to spread death and misery. His goblin armies and fearsome giants ravage the settlements of the frontier, and in the small village of Dundallis their merciless attack leaves behind two shattered orphans: Pony and her lifelong friend, the youth Elbryan. Taken in by elves, Elbryan is raised to become a formidable ranger -- a fateful role that will lead him into harrowing confrontation.
Meanwhile, on a far-off island, a shower of gemstones will fall onto the black sand shores. These heaven-sent stones carry within them an incredible power -- the key to all that is good in the world and all that is evil, and it is up to one young monk to liberate them from the corrupt monastery that harvests them. Pray that they don't fall into the wrong, clawed hands...
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Corona is amazing!.......2007-01-10
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The Demon Awakens Sample Chapter
R.A. SALVATORE Manufacturer: Del Rey ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0345421019 Release Date: 1997-05-06 |
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Demon Awakens
Manufacturer: Tandem Library ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: 1417650524 |
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The Demon Awakens
R.A. Salvatore Manufacturer: Del Rey ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OVSUNO |
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The Demon Awakens
R. A. Salvatore Manufacturer: Del Rey ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000VE396C |
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The Demon Awakens
Manufacturer: Del Rey ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000HKLI7C |
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DEMON AWAKENS (DEMONWARS, NO 1)
R.A. SALVATORE Manufacturer: Del Rey ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000KCZ1IY |
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Anaheim Run/Seattle Run (Double Endworld)
David Robbins Manufacturer: Leisure Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0843931892 |
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Running space: A guide to running trails in the greater Seattle area and annual runs throughout the Northwest
Christine L Hunter Manufacturer: Genevieve Productions ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0006XW9VE |
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Run If You Dare
Randy Powell Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0374399816 |
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Gardner Dickinson has always been very laid-back. That's why it doesn't really bother him that while his friends and sister seem to have long-term goals, he just moseys through life browsing through books and trying out weights, without ever finishing a novel or beginning an exercise program. Then, his dad gets laid off and can't seem to motivate himself to find another job. As he watches his father putter aimlessly in the garage day after day, Gardner begins to suspect that his inability to concentrate may be hereditary. And during a serious heart-to-heart talk about the state of their family, older sister Lacey confirms it: "You and Dad both have a problem in the focusing and following-through departments... you come up with a new delusion every week but you don't act on a single one." Gardner wants to prove Lacey wrong, so he takes up running, forcing himself to stick with it even when he wants to quit. But while Gardner is learning discipline, his dad seems to be slipping further and further into a deep depression. Can Gardner convince his father that it's not too late to change his ways before their family drifts apart from lack of focus?Randy Powell has written a subtle, smart novel that sincerely portrays two of the most difficult hurdles of adolescence: the search for meaning in one's life and the dawning realization that parents are people, too. A thoughtful addition to Powell's collection of teen-boy-angst novels, the most recent being Tribute to Another Dead Rock Star. (Ages 13 and older) --Jennifer Hubert
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RUN if You Dare.......2006-10-23
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Anaheim Run/Seattle Run
David Robbins Manufacturer: BMI ProductGroup: Book Binding: Mass Market Paperback ASIN: B000UQIBHS |
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Endworld #14 Seattle Run
David Robbins Manufacturer: Leisure Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000L318HA |
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Endworld , Anaheim Run & Seattle Run
David Robbins Manufacturer: BMI ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000TXLAN4 |
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Seattle area gets HIP: Washington builders pioneer a new home automation system that runs most standard home applications over a wireless infrastructure.(DIGITAL ... FOR NEW HOMES) : An article from: Builder
Steve Zurier Manufacturer: Hanley-Wood, Inc. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B000E8U54O Release Date: 2006-01-25 |
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Seattle Run
David Robbins Manufacturer: Leisure Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000RESL7I |
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Seattle Run (Endworld #14)
Manufacturer: Leisure Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Mass Market Paperback ASIN: B000GYAXN4 |
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Seattle Run (Endworld, No 14)
David Robbins Manufacturer: Leisure Books (Mm) ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
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Mr. Jones, Meet the Master: Sermons and Prayers of Peter Marshall
Peter Marshall , and Catherine Marshall Manufacturer: Fleming H Revell Co ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0800750950 |
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not only for Christians.......2005-04-25
Boring? Hah!!!!!!!!!.......1999-02-01
This book will touch your Soul, Heart, Mind, and Life!.......1998-11-10
I am planning on buying five additional copies for my children to keep in their homes.
Thank you Rev. and Mrs. Marshall
First Rate and Thoughtful!.......1998-09-22
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Mr. Jones, Meet the Master: Sermons and Prayers of Peter Marshall, D.d.
Manufacturer: Fleming H. Revell Company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000FITH2E |
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Mr. Jones, Meet the Master- Sermons and Prayers of Peter Marshall
Peter Marshall Manufacturer: Fleming H. Revell Company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: B000FGXLZA |
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Sermons and prayers of Peter Marshall " A Man Called Peter ".Customer Reviews:
Insights on the journey home.......2007-08-10
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Mr. Jones Meets the Master Sermons and Prayers of Peter Marshall
Peter Marshall Manufacturer: Revell ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
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Meet the Master: Sermons and Prayers of Peter Marshall
Mr. Jones Manufacturer: Fleming H. Revell ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000K0C8WI |
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Mr Jones, Meet the Master: Sermons and Prayers of Peter Marshall
Peter Marshall Manufacturer: Fontana ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0006210368 |
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Mr. Jones : Meet the Master: Sermons and prayers of Peter Marshall
Peter Marshall Manufacturer: Fleming H. Revell, ; ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0006P6CJ2 |
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Mr. Jones Meet the Master - Sermons and Prayers of Peter Marshall
Peter Marshall Manufacturer: Fleming H. Revell ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000O5KLMI |
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Mr. Jones Meet the Master - Sermons and Prayers of Peter Marshall
Catherine ( Marshall, Peter ) Marshall Manufacturer: Fleming H Revell ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000O3IR1C |
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Mr. Jones Meet the Master, Sermons and Prayers of Peter Marshall
Peter Marshall Manufacturer: Fleming H. Revell Company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000I6OUPC |
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