Archive for February 9, 2010
UNION ATLANTIC by Adam Haslett
After reading UNION ATLANTIC, one fact becomes increasingly obvious: Adam Haslett is one heck of a talented writer. But what might not be that obvious is that he is also prescient. His gripping novel essentially revolves around a large fictional bank (Union Atlantic)’s spectacular failure. Get this: Haslett completed it the week that a real-life bank, Lehman Brothers, collapsed.
Haslett has said that while writing UNION ATLANTIC, he worried that no one would know what the Federal Reserve was, or “if they did they wouldn’t want to read about it in a novel.” He needn’t have worried. After all, life—in this case sadly—imitates art.
February 9, 2010
Tags: Bankruptcy, Boston, Contemporary, Literary, Money Posted in: Award Winning Author, Contemporary, Debut Novel, Greed & Corruption, Job, NE & New York 
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