Human Capital - by Stephen Amidon (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>As the fortunes of two crumbling families become perilously interwoven, a terrible accident leads one of the patriarchs to begin speculating with human lives instead of money. The unforeseen consequences bring the novel to a devastating climax.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b> Stephen Amidon's <i>Human Capital</i> is a gripping novel of new money, old jealousies, and the secret lives of parents and children in the suburbs. Now a major motion picture!</b> <p/>It's the spring of 2001. Drew Hagel has spent the last decade watching things slip away--his marriage, his real estate brokerage, and his beloved daughter, Shannon, now a distant and mysterious high school senior. But as summer approaches, Drew forms an unexpected friendship with Quint Manning, the manager of a secretive hedge fund. Drew sees the friendship leading to vast, frictionless wealth, but Drew doesn't know that Manning has problems of his own: his Midas touch is abandoning him, his restless wife has grown disillusioned, and his hard-drinking son is careening out of control. <p/>As the fortunes of the Hagels and the Mannings collide, a terrible accident gives Drew the leverage he needs to stay in the game. At once brilliantly observed and masterfully paced, <i>Human Capital</i> deftly slices open the rich, corrupt heart of suburban America and lets its dark secrets bleed out (<i>Elle</i>).</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"Amidon nails it. . . . <i>Human Capital</i> is terrific." --<i>The Washington Post Book World</i> <p/>"A splendid novel with the satiric bite of <i>Bonfire of the Vanities</i> . . . terribly well-realized." --<i>The Seattle Times</i> <p/>"Amidon's novel is a wonderfully wicked satire on a twenty- first Century gilded age. . . . His book is more than just one family's story. It's a portrait of a whole society caught in the dead end that everyone insists will lead somewhere after all." --<i>Chicago Tribune</i> <p/>"A gripping, troubling, and incisive portrait of the way we live now . . . has the ambitious sweep and narrative power of a nineteenth-century novel." --<i>Tom Perrotta, author of Little Children</i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><b>Stephen Amidon</b>'s previous books include <i>The New City</i> and <i>Subdivision</i>. He lived and worked in London for fifteen years before returning to the United States, where he lives in Greenfield, Massachusetts, with his wife and children.</p>
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