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Lädt ... How to Sellvon Clancy Martin
![]() Keine Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. ![]() ![]() A little hard to see what all the fuss is about. HOW TO SELL is droll and reasonably emblematic of our times, but hardly the dazzling tour de force and fictional indictment of contemporary consumerism that some folks are claiming it for. A while back Martin had a (presumably nonfiction) piece in the LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS that was a good deal more harrowing and vivid than anything in this book. "Requiem for a Dream" in the jewelry business. It provided some interesting reflections on how people sell...well, everything (jewelry, self-esteem, sex, love, ideas, drugs, emotion, connection, identity). Not a great novel, but a good one with little gems (sic) popping up occasionally, like: "He had lied to me thousands of times. He lied to me almost as much as he lied to his customers...And if you told him he lied he would deny it with a sincere heart. He was extraordinarily healthy. Psychologically, I mean."
The novel is a good, pacey and ultimately unchallenging read. Why couldn’t they just say that on the cover? “Entertaining, zippy and unchallenging — X, author of Y.” If you ever bought overpriced jewelry from Clancy Martin, he's sorry. If you buy his novel, you won't be. Prestigeträchtige Auswahlen
Bobby Clark is just sixteen when he drops out of school to follow his big brother, Jim, into the jewelry business. Bobby idolizes Jim and is in awe of Jim's girlfriend, Lisa, the best saleswoman at the Fort Worth Deluxe Diamond Exchange. What follows is the story of a young man's education in two of the oldest human passions: love and money. Through a dark, sharp lens, Clancy Martin captures the luxury business in all its exquisite vulgarity and outrageous fraud, finding in the diamond-and-watch trade a metaphor for the American soul at work. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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