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The Fall of Princes

by Robert Goolrick
R. C. Bray
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In the Spellbinding new novel for New York Times bestselling author Robert Goolrick, 1980s Manhattan shimmers like the mirage it was, as money, power, and invincibility seduce a group of young Wall Street turks. Together they reach the pinnacle, achieving the kind of wealth that grants them access to anything and anyone they want. Until, one by one, they fall. With the literary chops of Bonfire of the Vanities and the dizzying decadence of The Wolf of Wall Street, The Fall of Princes takes listeners into a world of hedonistic highs and devastating lows, weaving a visceral tale about the lives of these young men, winners all . . . until someone changes the rules of the game. Goolrick paints a magnificently authentic portrait of an era, tense and stylish, perfectly mixing adrenaline and melancholy. Stunning in its acute observations about great wealth and its absence, and deeply moving in its deception of the ways in which these men learn to cope with both extremes, the novel travels from New York to Paris to Los Angeles to Italy to Las Vegas to London, on a journey that is as startling as it is starkly revealing, a true tour de force.

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  • Release date

    August 25, 2015

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781622318940
      • File size: 190420 KB
      • Duration: 06:36:42

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      When authors want domesticity and conformity, they set stories in the 1950s; when they want sex, drugs, money, and rampant consumerism, the go to the 1980s. That's where this audiobook takes place, and it captures the era almost as perfectly as Tom Wolfe's BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES. It's the story of a trader who makes gobs of cash, spends it, loses it, and thinks about why it happened. Narrator R.C. Bray's voice is deep and ominous, which works for the parts of the book that evoke fear and loathing but takes away from the swashbuckling feel of the go-go '80s. Perhaps a lighter touch on the jokes and description would have served him better. Overall, Bray does enough with the character voices to differentiate the book's many personalities, and he paces the material well. R.I.G. © AudioFile 2015, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      June 1, 2015
      The unapologetic excesses of America’s hedonistic 1980s are embodied in Goolrick’s (Heading Out to Wonderful) egotistical protagonist, and this new novel is an addictive slice of semiautobiographical fiction. Goolrick’s unnamed hero is a young, wealthy, arrogant Wall Street commodities trader with a merry band of young millionaire coconspirators in the BSD (big swinging dick) club. His profligate lifestyle, bloated by luxury, drugs, transcontinental parties, and casual sex (“before the plague,” that is), began while he expertly climbed the ranks at his firm where, at 31, he was soon able to “trade shit for silk.” The novel’s jumpy time line artfully and gleefully juxtaposes his lush lifestyle with the immediate adjustment to his shocking job termination, divorce, and defeated return to being “almost a nonperson” in mainstream society. The ascending years spent lavishing in the riches afforded by his livelihood on Wall Street are beautifully peppered with morally authoritative meditations on the specter of AIDS in the 80s (“suddenly, love is fatal”), the interchangeable cultures of excess and dearth, and his new life as a bookstore clerk. As if exorcising the demons of his past, Goolrick vividly plumbs the depths of fortune and regret. The result is a compulsively readable examination of the highs and lows of life in the big city. Agent: Lynn Nesbit, Janklow & Nesbit Associates.

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