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Genre/Form: | Nonfiction History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Lewis, Michael (Michael M.). Big short. (OCoLC)1085906675 |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Michael Lewis |
ISBN: | 9780393072235 0393072231 9781846142574 1846142571 0393338827 9780393338829 9780393353150 039335315X |
OCLC Number: | 317919864 |
Awards: | Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, 2011 |
Description: | xviii, 266 pages ; 25 cm |
Contents: | Prologue: Poltergeist -- A secret origin story -- In the land of the blind -- "How can a guy who can't speak English lie?" -- How to harvest a migrant worker -- Accidental capitalists -- Spider-man at the Venetian -- The great treasure hunt -- The long quiet -- A death of interest -- Two men in a boat -- Epilogue : Everything is correlated. |
Responsibility: | Michael Lewis. |
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There aren't many reasons to be happy about the global financial crisis, but here's one: that it brought Michael Lewis back to his roots, to produce what is probably the single best piece of financial journalism ever written -- Felix Salmon * Reuters * Each chapter is full of the kind of dialogue you do not hear even in the best-written Hollywood films ... Lewis is back -- John Arlidge * Sunday Times * No one writes with more narrative panache about money and finance than Mr. Lewis -- Michiko Kakutani * New York Times * Hugely entertaining * Economist * If you read only one book about the causes of the recent financial crisis, let it be Michael Lewis's, The Big Short -- Steven Pearlstein * Washington Post * The Big Short is superb: Michael Lewis doing what he does best, illuminating the idiocy, madness and greed of modern finance ... But what truly sets Michael Lewis apart from other writers is his craft ... the end result is devastating * Salon * Eagerly anticipated ... A triumph ... Lewis builds the tension of this tug-of-war expertly, so much so that The Big Short reads like a thriller -- Antonia Senior * Times * Lewis creates magnificent financial set-pieces -- James Buchan * Guardian * Lewis is hugely entertaining ... a terrifying story, superbly well told -- David Flusfeder * Daily Telegraph * Read more...


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