The Fall of Princes - Robert Goolrick

Written by Robert Goolrick
Read by R. C. Bray
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Publisher: HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books
Release date: August 25, 2015
Duration: 06:36:42

When authors want domesticity and conformity, they set stories in the 1950s; when they want sex, drugs, money, and rampant consumerism, they go to the 1980s. That’s where this audio book takes place, and it captures the era almost as perfectly as Tom Wolfe’s BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES.

Robert Goolrick’s, 1980’s Manhattan shimmers like the mirage it was, as money, power, and invincibility seduce a group of young Wall Street turks. Together they reach the pinnacle, achieving the kind of wealth that grants them access to anything – and anyone – they want. Until, one by one, they fall.

With the literary chops of Bonfire of the Vanities and the dizzying decadence of The Wolf of Wall Street, The Fall of Princes takes readers into a world of hedonistic highs and devastating lows, weaving a visceral tale about the lives of these young men, winners all . . . until someone changes the rules of the game. Goolrick paints a magnificently authentic portrait of an era, tense and stylish, perfectly mixing adrenaline and melancholy.

Stunning in its acute observations about great wealth and its absence, and deeply moving in its deception of the ways in which these men learn to cope with both extremes, the novel travels from New York to Paris to Los Angeles to Italy to Las Vegas to London, on a journey that is as startling as it is starkly revealing, a true tour de force