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2004 Award
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Moral Hazard by Kate Jennings
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ABOUT
THE BOOK
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Wall Street, reflects Cath, women are about as welcome as fleas in a sleeping
bag. Funny, liberal and left-leaning, she is an unlikely candidate to be
writing speeches on derivatives in a cubicle in a Manhattan tower, 'putting
words in the mouths of plutocrats deeply suspicious of words of more than
two syllables'. She finds herself on Wall Street because she needs serious
money - after ten good years, her beloved older husband Bailey is suffering
from Alzheimer's. So begins Cath's journey into two nightmare worlds. By
day she deals with the topsy-turvy logic and ingrown personalities at work
in high finance, by night she has to watch the slow disintegration of the
man she loves. In between she must stop herself from falling apart. Friendship
with Mike, a colleague and incognito socialist, helps her survive and the
assault course of the workplace with its vicious office politics. But as
the money markets hurtle towards a financial meltdown, Cath faces personal
disaster and a moral hazard that she cannot ignore. Kate Jennings's prose is lean yet rich in unexpected, telling detail. Tense, taut and compulsively readable, Moral Hazard is peopled by extraordinary characters and informed by a mordant, witty intelligence. |
| ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
| Kate Jennings, who grew up in Australia, has lived in New York since 1979. During the nineties she worked as an executive speechwriter at several Wall Street investment banks. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times Book Review and the Australian's Review of Books. Along with the volumes of poetry and essays, she is the author of the Steele Rudd Award-winning book of short stories, Women Falling Down in the Street, and the internationally acclaimed novel, Snake. |
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