SUMMARY:The eagerly anticipated debut novel from the author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist You Are Not a Stranger Here: a deeply affecting portrait of the modern gilded age, the first decade of the twenty-first century. At the heart of Union Atlantic lies a test of wills between a young banker, Doug Fanning, and a retired schoolteacher, Charlotte Graves, whose two dogs have begun to speak to her. When Doug builds an ostentatious mansion on land that Charlotte's grandfather donated to the town of Finden, Massachusetts, she determines to oust him in court. As a senior manager of Union Atlantic bank, a major financial conglomerate, Doug is embroiled in the company's struggle to remain afloat. It is Charlotte's brother, Henry Graves, the president of the New York Federal Reserve, who must keep a watchful eye on Union Atlantic and the entire financial system. Drawn into Doug and Charlotte's intensifying conflict is Nate Fuller, a troubled high-school senior who unwittingly stirs powerful emotions in each of them. Irresistibly complex, imaginative, and witty, Union Atlantic is a singular work of fiction that is sure to be read and reread long after it causes a sensation this spring.

First Atlantic: a novel

Haslett, Adam

Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers

Nan A. Talese/Doubleday; Nan A. Talese

Delacorte Press

Anchor

Penguin Random House LLC, New York, 2013

1st ed., New York, New York State, 2009

United States, United States of America

First edition, New York, 2009

topic: Bankers-Fiction; Older women-Fiction; High school students-Fiction; House construction-Fiction; Social classes-Fiction; Massachusetts-Fiction

Type: 英文图书

Bookmarks:
1. (p15) July 1988
2. (p27) Part One
3. (p155) Part Two
4. (p243) Part Three
5. (p321) A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR
6. (p322) A NOTE ABOUT THE TYPE

theme: Bankers-Fiction; Older women-Fiction; High school students-Fiction; House construction-Fiction; Social classes-Fiction; Massachusetts-Fiction

<p><p><b>From the author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist <i>You Are Not A Stranger Here</i>, a stunning, masterful portrait of our modern gilded age.<br>&#160;<br>At the heart of <i>Union Atlantic</i> lies a test of wills between a retired history teacher, Charlotte Graves&mdash;who has suddenly begun to hear her two dogs speaking to her in the voices of Cotton Mather and Malcolm X&mdash;and an ambitious young banker, Doug Fanning, who is building an ostentatious mansion on what was once Charlotte&rsquo;s family land. Drawn into the conflict is Nate Fuller, a troubled high-school student who stirs powerful emotions in both of them. What emerges is a riveting story of financial power, the defense of tradition, and the distortions of desire these forces create. With remarkable scope and precision, <i>Union Atlantic</i> delivers a striking vision of the violent, anxious world we&rsquo;ve come to inhabit.<br></b><p></p><h3>The New York Times - Liesl Schillinger</h3><p>Each story in [You Are Not a Stranger Here] explored a different way that tightly wound lives can come unspooled. Haslett wrote in a variety of detached, understated voices, each aching in its precise registry of the minute gradations of emotional pain. It's remarkable how successfully <i>Union Atlantic</i>&#151;so unlike the stories in structure and style, and so much broader in scope&#151;continues the nuance of Haslett's earlier characterizations. The actors in this extroverted drama are closeted (or not-so-closeted) introverts. The screen of their surface behavior hides their obsessions and hopes, as well as their shame&#151;just as the balance sheet of a shady debt bundle can appear spruce and clear while concealing a thicket of machinations.&#8230;In <i>Union Atlantic,</i> swiftly and confidently, Haslett unwinds the ball of yarn that is the global financial crisis to reveal its core: a knot of ineluctable yearnings and individual needs.</p>

From the acclaimed author of Imagine Me Gone and the Pulitzer Prize finalist You Are Not A Stranger Here, a stunning, masterful portrait of our modern gilded age. At the heart of Union Atlantic lies a test of wills between a retired history teacher, Charlotte Graves—who has suddenly begun to hear her two dogs speaking to her in the voices of Cotton Mather and Malcolm X—and an ambitious young banker, Doug Fanning, who is building an ostentatious mansion on what was once Charlotte's family land. Drawn into the conflict is Nate Fuller, a troubled high-school student who stirs powerful emotions in both of them. What emerges is a riveting story of financial power, the defense of tradition, and the distortions of desire these forces create. With remarkable scope and precision, Union Atlantic delivers a striking vision of the violent, anxious world we've come to inhabit.

At the heart of this novel lies a test of wills between a young banker, Doug Fanning, and a retired schoolteacher, Charlotte Graves, whose two dogs have begun to speak to her. When Doug builds an ostentatious mansion on land that Charlotte's grandfather donated to the town of Finden, Massachusetts, she determines to oust him in court. As a senior manager of Union Atlantic bank, a major financial conglomerate, Doug is embroiled in the company's struggle to remain afloat. It is Charlotte's brother, Henry Graves, the president of the New York Federal Reserve, who must keep a watchful eye on Union Atlantic and the entire financial system. Drawn into Doug and Charlotte's intensifying conflict is Nate Fuller, a troubled high-school senior who unwittingly stirs powerful emotions in each of them

2025-02-04