In the spellbinding new novel from #1 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. Until, one by one, they fall.
In addition to his most recent novel, The Fall of Princes, Robert Goolrick is the author of three other books: The End of the World as We Know It, a memoir; his first novel, A Reliable Wife, with sales of more than 1 million copies; and his second novel, Heading Out to Wonderful. He lives in Virginia.
"[E]ach chapter is haunting and compulsively readable, written in a
bold, brash voice that aims for over-the-top and miraculously
sticks the landing. Grade: A-" --Entertainment Weekly "[E]legiac. .
. While 'The Fall of Princes' patrols territory marked by Tom
Wolfe, Jay McInerney and Michael Lewis, Goolrick writes with an
immediacy and precision that make this world feel as if it is all
his own. He is greatly aided in this by a finely tuned sense of
bleak humor." --The Washington Post "[W]hile [Goolrick] describes a
way of life that may never be possible again, he also manages to
convey its beautiful, tragic appeal in an unforgettable rush of
prose. . . In a raw and breathless first-person voice, he shows us
a lifestyle that has been written about before by writers from Tom
Wolfe to Bret Easton Ellis and Jay McInerney...Irresistible,
bittersweet." --The Boston Globe "Comparisons will inevitably be
made to other novels in a similar key. Jay McInerney's 'Bright
Lights, Big City' and Brett Easton Ellis's 'American Psycho' come
to mind. And 'Fall of Princes' shares something with these
classics. Goolrick is a vivid writer with a penchant for electric
scenes. And certainly he has shown us what it's like to live with
unfathomable wealth and privilege." --Minneapolis Star-Tribune
"[A]n addictive slice of semiautobiographical fiction . . . As if
exorcising the demons of his past, Goolrick vividly plums the
depths of fortune and regret. The result is a compulsively readable
examination of the highs and lows of life in the big city."
--Publishers Weekly "[A] compelling, wholly seductive narrative
voice . . . Goolrick's stellar prose infuses this redemption story
with a good deal of depth and despair, making it read like the
literary version of The Wolf of Wall Street." --Booklist "Goolrick
is a superb writer . . . He's referred to his latest as both novel
and autobiography; it carries both the artistic qualities of the
former and the emotional truth of the latter . . . ranging from the
tragicomic beats of Jay McInerney or Bret Easton Ellis to the
repulsive behaviors in films like Oliver Stone's Wall Street and
Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street . . . Goolrick is focused
on the idea of loss and redemption, and shows the small ways by
which we become human again." -- Kirkus Reviews "In this
semi-autobiographical story set in the '80s, the hero, to use that
term loosely, is a Wall Street trader who lives a life beyond
excess. The author "flushes with shame at the memory," but remorse
only comes after the fall where he ends up a clerk at a bookstore.
Sparsely told, but brilliantly well done." --NY Daily News
"The bestselling author (2009's A Reliable Wife) examines the
"greed is good" lifestyle of 1980s Wall Street in his new novel. It
traces the rise and fall of Rooney and his narcissistic band of
hedonists, including all the excesses that went with that era of
financial privilege -- sex, drugs, booze and the finest of
everything. And it's true that money can't buy you love." --Fort
Worth Star-Telegram
"A heart--wrenching, beautiful, darkly comic, deeply necessary tale
that stuns again and again with razor-sharp prose and glittering
wit. Robert Goolrick is, without question, one of the greatest
storytellers of our time." --T�a Obreht, author of The Tiger's Wife
"Goolrick's novel is a gorgeous testament to Manhattan's hedonistic
world where money, greed, sex, and misdirected desire proved to be
poor substitutes for a sense of belonging." -CurledUp.com "The Fall
of Princes is a dark, intoxicating morality tale of a bygone
generation, a world of excess and decadence and the price paid by
some--but by no means all--of those who partook in the bacchanal.
Robert Goolrick deftly peels back the layers of the high life of
high finance and, with his impeccable prose, focuses his
unflinching eye on the grittiness beneath the sleek facade of
nightclubs, fashion, and monied Manhattan extravagance. Beautifully
crafted, seductive and provocative in tone, Goolrick's novel is a
powerful read: honest, true, and deeply affecting."-Garth Stein,
author of A Sudden Light and The Art of Racing in the Rain
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