Diary of a Very Bad Year: Confessions of an Anonymous Hedge Fund Manager
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"n + 1" Magazine, a New York literary magazine, presents a profoundly candid and captivating insider account of the economic crisis from an anonymous hedge fund manager.
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Book Information
| Publisher: | Harper Perennial. |
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| Publish Date: | 06/22/2010 |
| Pages: | 272 |
| ISBN-13: | 9780061965302 |
| ISBN-10: | 0061965308 |
| Language: | English |
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Diary of a Very Bad Year: Confessions of an Anonymous Hedge Fund Manager by n+1, Keith Gessen & Anonymous Hedge Fund Manager, Harper Perennial, 260 pages, $14. 99, Paperback, June 2010, ISBN 9780061965302 Keith Gessen is the founder of n+1, a mostly literary magazine out of New York City, and the author of All the Sad Young Literary Men, which, as you can probably gather from the title, is also thoroughly literary. So, how is it that he has now penned one of the most fascinating books to date on the recent calamity on Wall Street? READ FULL DESCRIPTION
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"Diary of a Very Bad Year is a rarity: a book on modern finance that's both extraordinarily thoughtful and enormously entertaining."
-- James Surowiecki, author of The Wisdom of Crowds
"A great read. . . . HFM offers a brilliant financial professional's view of the economic situation in real time, from September 2007, when problems in financial markets began to surface, until late summer 2009."
-- Booklist
"n+1 is the rightful heir to Partisan Review and the New York Review of Books. It is rigorous, curious and provocative."
-- Malcolm Gladwell
A profoundly candid and captivating account of the economic crisis and subprime mortgage collapse, from an anonymous hedge fund manager, as told to the editors of New York literary magazine n+1.