A dazzling, dizzying debut - a high-speed American tragicomedy from an astonishing new talent.
Sixteen-year-old high-school drop-out Bobby moves to Dallas to join his big brother Jim in the jewellery trade. Jim's glamorous girlfriend Lisa is the best saleswoman in the business and from the moment Bobby meets her he falls under her spell.
Bobby discovers a new world - glitzy, trashy and hedonistic - where sex and money rule. As the brothers' fortunes explode will their rivalry for Lisa ruin everything?
A dazzling, dizzying debut - a high-speed American tragicomedy from an astonishing new talent.
Sixteen-year-old high-school drop-out Bobby moves to Dallas to join his big brother Jim in the jewellery trade. Jim's glamorous girlfriend Lisa is the best saleswoman in the business and from the moment Bobby meets her he falls under her spell.
Bobby discovers a new world - glitzy, trashy and hedonistic - where sex and money rule. As the brothers' fortunes explode will their rivalry for Lisa ruin everything?
A dazzling, dizzying debut - a high-speed American tragicomedy from an astonishing new talent.
A former owner of a variety of jewellery operations in Texas, Clancy Martin is presently an Associate Professor and Chair of Philosophy at the University of Missouri in Kansas City. He has translated Kierkegaard and Nietzsche, has written several books for Oxford University Press, and has published many essays, reviews, and short stories.
Dirty, greatly original, and very hard to stop reading
*Jonathan Franzen*
How To Sell is a bleak, funny, unforgiving novel about how we buy
and sell everything - merchandise, drugs, sex, trust, power, peace
of mind, religion, friendship, and each other. It's written
extremely finely, with wit and enviable self-control. A genuinely
fresh, disconcerting voice
*Zadie Smith*
A relentless, clever, sordid novel about what lies at the heart of
most transactions - sex and money
*Observer*
Smart, devious and sad
*Guardian*
This book smells like a hit
*Vogue*
A Canadian in 1987 goes to Texas and gets crushingly corrupted in Martin's sexy, funny and devastating debut. Bobby Clark is 16 when he leaves a dead-end setup with his single mother and grass-is-greener girlfriend, Wendy, and heads to Fort Worth to get into the fine jewelry business under the stewardship of his salesman brother, Jim. In no time, Bobby and Jim are snorting lines, Bobby's moving in on (and smoking crank with) Jim's mistress, Lisa, and getting a crash course in amazingly crooked business. Scams, bait-and-switch deals, bogus jewelry and startling treachery are day-to-day at the jewelry store, until the store's gregarious owner gets into trouble at the same time Bobby tries to save Lisa from a massive flame-out. Years later, Bobby's back in Fort Worth, married to Wendy (and with a child) and still in the jewelry business with Jim when Lisa reappears, engaged in an equally questionable if older profession. Bobby's helplessly honest narration is a sublime counterpoint to the crooked doings he's complicit in. Reading this is like watching one man's American dream turn into a soul-sucking nightmare. (May) Copyright 2009 Reed Business Information.
Dirty, greatly original, and very hard to stop reading -- Jonathan
Franzen
How To Sell is a bleak, funny, unforgiving novel about how
we buy and sell everything - merchandise, drugs, sex, trust, power,
peace of mind, religion, friendship, and each other. It's written
extremely finely, with wit and enviable self-control. A genuinely
fresh, disconcerting voice -- Zadie Smith
A relentless, clever, sordid novel about what lies at the heart of
most transactions - sex and money -- Francesca Segal * Observer
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Smart, devious and sad -- Catherine Taylor * Guardian *
This book smells like a hit * Vogue *
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