Teddy Wayne

Kapitoil

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Sometimes you do not truly observe something until you study it in reverse, writes Karim Issar upon arrival to New York City from Qatar in 1999. Fluent in numbers, logic, and business jargon yet often baffled by human connection, the young financial wizard soon creates a computer program named Kapitoil that predicts oil futures and reaps record profits for his company.At first an introspective loner adrift in New York's social scenes, he anchors himself to his legendary boss Derek Schrub and Rebecca, a sensitive, disillusioned colleague who may understand him better than he does himself. Her influence, and his father's disapproval of Karim's… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-06-187321-8
EAN: 9780061873218
Produktnummer: 5496190
Verlag: Harper Collins (US)
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
Seitenangabe: 320 S.
Gattung: Novel
Ausstattung: Trade Paperback
Masse: H20.5 cm x B13.7 cm x D2.2 cm 243 g
Gewicht: 243

Über den Autor

Teddy Wayne is a graduate of Harvard and Washington University in St. Louis. He is the the recipient of an NEA Creative Writing Fellowship, and his work has appeared in The New Yorker, the New York Times, Vanity Fair, Time, Esquire, McSweeney's, and elsewhere. He lives in New York.