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Trading Futures

By Jim Powell

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Trading Futures

By Jim Powell

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'What starts as a light and droll novel about the fall of a middle-aged everyman . . . becomes surprisingly dark and intense.' The Times At sixty, Matthew Oxenhay is a stranger to his wife, an embarrassment to his children, and a failed contender for the top job at his City firm. Faced with a life that bears little resemblance to the one he imagined for himself at twenty, unpicking the ties that bind - the comfortable home in the suburbs, the career spent trading futures - seems to offer escape. When he unexpectedly bumps into Anna (the one who got away), the stage is set for an epic unravelling . . . Darkly funny and powerfully moving, Trading Futures forces us to confront how change, like death, is an inevitable fact of life: it can transform or overwhelm us. '[Trading Futures] has a Reginald Perrin charm about it and an unexpected twist in the tail, but it stays affably bleak to the end.' Sunday Times 'Powell is very good on the sense of lost youth, nostalgia and what might have been . . . This is a novel that is at once honest and cautionary.' Financial Times 'A brief, funny, grim portrait of a man at the wrong end of life. Really good.' Mark Watson
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
218
Release Date:
2017-03-09
Publication Date:
2017-03-09
Publisher:
Picador
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1509806431
ISBN13:
9781509806430
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Minimum Reading Age:
18
Weight:
268 g
Height:
127 cm
Width:
203 cm
Thickness:
13 cm
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