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| A Conspiracy of Paper |
Nominated ISBN: 0375502920 |
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| David Liss | ||
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| Miami-Dade Public Library System, Miami, U.S.A |
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ABOUT THE
BOOK
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Benjamin
Weaver is an outsider in eighteenth-century London: a Jew among Christians;
a ruffian among aristocrats; a retired pugilist who, hired by London's
gentry, travels through the criminal underworld in pursuit of debtors
and thieves.
He investigates a crime of the most personal sort: the mysterious death of his estranged father, a notorious stockjobber. To find the answers, Weaver must contend with a desperate prostitute who knows too much about his past, relatives who remind him of his alienation from his Jewish faith, and a cabal of powerful men in the world of British finance who have hidden their business dealings behind an intricate web of deception and violence. Relying on brains and brawn, Weaver uncovers the beginnings of a strange new economic order based on stock speculation, a way of life that poses great risk for investors but real danger for Weaver and his family. Written with scholarly attention to period detail, A Conspiracy of Paper is a witty and suspenseful historical novel depicting the origin of today's financial markets. |
| ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
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David
Liss was
born in 1966 and grew up in south Florida, U.S. He is currently a doctoral
candidate in the department of English at Columbia University, where he
is completing his dissertation on how the mid-eighteenth-century novel
reflects and shapes the emergence of the modern idea of personal finance.
He has given numerous conference papers on his research and has also published
on Henry James. He has received several awards for his work, including
the Columbia President's Fellowship. An A.W. Mellon Research Fellowship
and the Whiting Dissertation Fellowship. He lives in New York with his
wife.
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