Union Atlantic: A Novel (Lambda Literary Award), (Paperback)

from GarySeverance

Adam Haslett is one of a group of talented writers (Jonathan Dee, Michael Mewshaw, Dan Chaon) describing turn of the century social and personal dilemmas in their novels. The novelty of the books is not in the themes explored; they appear in fiction at the beginning of each century. Themes involv...

from bookchickdi

Watching the Congressional hearings into Goldman Sachs made me appreciate the prescience of Adam Haslett's brilliant novel, Union Atlantic. Written in the year before the economic collapse of 2009, Haslett's novel features a young gun investment banker, Doug Fanning, whom we first meet in 1988 wh...

from lynnytisc

Very engaging story about a fictional bank and one of it's players, and his clash with a very excentric iconoclast, Charlotte the retired history teacher. It's a very current subject as the bank players play fast and loose skirting the rules and how the federal reserve looks the other way. Charlo...

from alexrichman

I picked this up after hearing the author read the first paragraph of the first chapter, which was funny and stylish. Sadly, the writing never quite crackled like that again. Nevertheless, the lonely spinster and her 'talking' dogs was an excellent invention, and the various storylines all ended ...

from gayla.bassham

I wanted to like this book more than I did. I liked the theme and the ideas behind the book, but something about the characters left me cold.