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Mergers and Acquisitions (Audio CD) (Unabridged)
Mergers and Acquisitions - Audio CD - Unabridged Author:Dana Vachon, Kirby Heyborne (Narrator) A stylish novel about the lives and loves of well-to-do young Manhattanites in their first year on Wall Street, this is the story of Tommy Quinn, a recent Georgetown grad who has just landed the job of his dreams as an investment banker, and the perfect girl, Frances Sloan, the daughter of one of New York's oldest moneyed families. As he tra... more »vels from the most exclusive ballrooms to the stuffiest boardrooms, from the golf links of Piping Rock to the bedrooms of Park Avenue, and from the debauched yacht of a Mexican billionaire to the Ritalin-strewn prep-school dorm room of his younger brother, he finds that the job and the girl are not what they once seemed.
Audio Review:
Tommy Quinn is out of place. He is a young, not so ambitious man starting out in the financial world who is surrounded by wealthy and oblivious people, from his bosses to his circle of acquaintances. He tells his story through a wonderfully written first-person account in this debut novel. It succeeds as a poignant, often hilarious coming-of-age story. Narrator Kirby Heyborne crafts perfectly appropriate voices for the characters, including a benevolent and gregarious Indian man, a Latin boss, air-headed men and women, and a sad girlfriend. The best characterization, though, is given to an especially shallow friend, whose dialogue keeps the reader chuckling. Long live hedonism and laugh-out-loud writing. Vachon is here to stay. Lets hope he and Heyborne team up again. -- AudioFile