Entitlement

NAMED ONE OF NPR’S “BOOKS WE LOVE” 2024 ONE OF ONE OF ONE OF ONE OF “Rumaan Alam is a rarity... "A brilliant exploration of extreme wealth and how it bends the lives of those close to it... Alam keeps things crystal clear and speedway fast." -- “Should come with an undertow warning.” --Louise Erdrich A novel of money and morality from the Brooke wants. She isn’t in need, but there are things she wants. A sense of purpose, for instance. She wants to make a difference in the world, to impress her mother along the way, to spend time with friends and secure her independence. Her job assisting an octogenarian billionaire in his quest to give away a vast fortune could help her achieve many of these goals. It may inspire new desires as well: proximity to wealth turns out to be nothing less than transformative. What is money, really, but a kind of belief? Taut, unsettling, and alive to the seductive distortions of money,

Product details

• Authors: Rumaan Alam, Alam Rumaan
• Publisher: Riverhead
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.09.2025
• EAN: 9780593718476
• ISBN: 978-0-593-71847-6
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 202 mm x 16 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Fiction: special features, FICTION / Family Life / General, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Psychological, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Narrative theme: interior life / psychological fiction, Family life fiction / Stories about family