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Thomas Dunne Books
April 2013
On Sale: March 26, 2013
304 pages
ISBN: 1250011361
EAN: 9781250011367
Kindle: B0096QZ5G8
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Fiction Family Life
A powerful, exquisitely written tale about a charismatic
yet morally ambiguous salesman
Jim can sell anything to anyone. Born into abject
poverty, he uses street smarts, irresistible charms, and
increasingly sophisticated schemes to pull himself up from
door-to-door salesman to international mogul, the father of
the pyramid scheme. Jim becomes fabulously wealthy,
owning estates and dining with royalty, but along the way he
leaves an army of disillusioned customers broke and ruined
in his wake. To escape his past, as well as government
investigators, he leaves the country to become the leader
of a lawless and predatory gold-mining operation in the
Brazilian Amazon---an entirely lush, violent, dissolute
life. Worn down by age, and a lifetime of shady
enterprise, his world suddenly changes when he meets Mara, a
beautiful, young Israeli woman with dark ambitions of her
own. In the process of their unlikely life together, Mara
finds herself attracted to this ruined old man, as if his
profligate history of glory and big money, and finally his
weakness and proximity to death, creates an urgency and
eroticism for her. Narrated by an anonymous writer who
is equally mesmerized and repulsed by Jim, Fred Waitzkin's
The Dream Merchant is an unwavering look at the price
of heedless ambition, the indissoluble bonds of male
friendship, and the unsettling nature of love and sexuality.
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