Union Atlantic, Adam Haslett
Union Atlantic, Adam Haslett
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Union Atlantic

Author: Adam Haslett

Narrator: David Aaron Baker

Unabridged: 10 hr 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 01/05/2010


Synopsis

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. "Union Atlantic is a masterful portrait of our age."-Malcolm Gladwell

Reviews

Goodreads review by Apeiron

Union Atlantic : So good even negative reviews are basically recommendations. One star reviews mention unsympathetic characters, complex prose, ponderous chapters, moral ambiguity. They call it a bad book, I call it Adam Hasslett is so scary good at words he must've studied writing at Hogwarts. And he......more

Goodreads review by Peter

Adam Haslett's Imagine Me Gone is one of my favourite novels of recent years, a tender and beautifully told account of mental illness. I was eager to read more of his work and when I saw his first book in a charity shop the other day, I decided to give it a shot. The story opens in the Middle East, 1......more