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The dismal science : a novel
| Title | The dismal science : a novel |
| Names | Mountford, Peter. |
| Book Number | DBC06947 |
| Title Status | Active |
| Medium | Digital Books |
| Download Link | Downloadable talking book. |
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| Annotation | Vincent D'Orsi is a middle-aged widower who is not aging gracefully. He was forced into early retirement from his job at the World Bank after washing dirty laundry in public. After an unsettling meeting with someone who might be with the CIA, he tries to make sense of his life and his relationship with his daughter. Adult. Unrated. |
| General Notes | Available from BARD courtesy of the Washington Talking Book and Braille Library. |
| Local Notes | "The Dismal Science tells of a middle-aged vice president at the World Bank, Vincenzo D'Orsi, who publicly quits his job over a seemingly minor argument with a colleague. A scandal inevitably ensues, and he systematically burns every bridge to his former life. After abandoning his career, Vincenzo, a recent widower, is at a complete loss as to what to do with himself. The story follows his efforts to rebuild his identity without a vocation or the company of his wife. An exploration of the fragile nature of identity, The Dismal Science reveals the terrifying speed with which a person's sense of self can be annihilated. It is at once a study of a man attempting to apply his reason to the muddle of life and a book about how that same ostensible rationality, and the mathematics of finance in particular, operates-with similarly dubious results-in our world."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Narrator | Zhou, Larissa. |
| Length | 1 online resource (audio (6 hours, 44 minutes)) |
| Local Subject | Literary fiction - FI7 |
| Psychological fiction - FI4 | |
| Strong language - ST | |
| Adult book - AD | |
| Fiction - FI | |
| Produced at WTBBL - PAW | |
| Family stories - FI13 | |
| Classics - CL | |
| LC Subject | Economists - Fiction |
| Identity (Psychology) - Fiction |
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| Loss (Psychology) - Fiction |
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| Middle-aged men - Fiction |
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| Widowers - Fiction |
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| Washington Metropolitan Area - Fiction |
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| Psychological fiction |
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| Fiction |
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| Audience Notes | A NLS/BPH |
| Call Number | 813.6 AFI |
| Language | English |
| Released | 2014 |
| Publication Info | Seattle : Tin House Books 2014 |
| Original Publication | Recorded from: First U.S. edition. Portland, Oregon : Tin House Books, 2014. 9781935639725 |
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