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The Exchange-rate Between Love and Money
Thomas Leveritt
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Description for The Exchange-rate Between Love and Money
Paperback. Best friends Frito and Bannerman roll into town, still in search of the fortune they missed out on in the dot-com years. For a while it seems that soaking up reconstruction money isn't the worst plan ever. Meanwhile the city is overrun by black marketeers, poker hustlers, intelligence officers, and expat hedonists all high on Dayton money. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 24. Weight in Grams: 246.
Sarajevo, 2003. Best friends Frito and Bannerman roll into town, still in search of the fortune they missed out on in the dot-com years. For a while it seems that soaking up reconstruction money isn't the worst plan ever. But then they both meet Clare, a prosecutor with the international war crimes tribunal, and they both realise she is the best person they've has ever met, and that they can't both have her as much as they would, ideally, like.
Meanwhile the city is overrun by black marketeers, poker hustlers, intelligence officers, and expat hedonists all high on ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099513452
SKU
V9780099513452
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Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-23
About Thomas Leveritt
Thomas Leveritt is half-American, half-British. This is his first novel. He has won the Carroll Medal for Portraiture from the Royal Society of Portrait Painters. In addition, he has: programmed computers, aid-worked in Bosnia-Herzegovina, an Army Scholarship into the 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards, a Law Scholarship into Middle Temple, 28 cousins in Texas, and held the UK distribution rights ... Read more
Reviews for The Exchange-rate Between Love and Money
Part love story, part hilarious political send-up, Leveritt's debut is hectic, intense and verbally dazzling
Guardian
Brutal, crazed and hilarious
New Statesman
There aren't many debuts with this scope. Leveritt's take on 2003 Sarajevo is a nutty, funny and constantly inventive ride
Matt Thorne Start reading and you'll be drawn into a manic tale of ... Read more
Guardian
Brutal, crazed and hilarious
New Statesman
There aren't many debuts with this scope. Leveritt's take on 2003 Sarajevo is a nutty, funny and constantly inventive ride
Matt Thorne Start reading and you'll be drawn into a manic tale of ... Read more