Boomerang: The Biggest Bust
Michael Lewis
'A highly enjoyable exercise in financial disaster tourism... politically incorrect, often very funny, and shot through with genuine insight' Robert Harris, The Times
In this hilarious, fascinating, timely must-read, Michael Lewis reveals the true natures of the countries caught up in - and exacerbating - our boomerang economies, showing how the financial meltdown hit us all in the face. Right now, Europe is in serious financial chaos. In Greece, infrastructure costs mean it would be cheaper to transport all Greek rail passengers by taxi, and hairdressing is classified as arduous for tax avoidance purposes. In Iceland, Range Rovers frequently explode as owners collect the insurance to pay for them. Ireland saw the entire country put up for sale - to itself, while the Germans expected the whole world to behave like them. But the whole world didn't.
'Chock-full of extraordinary characters, amusing anecdotes and shocking insights' Observer
'A tour de force... All those questions you've half-asked yourself: nowhere else will you find them answered with such incisive wit or terrifying clarity' Mail on Sunday
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Reviews for Boomerang: The Biggest Bust
Michiko Kakutani
New York Times
Michael Lewis's bravura journey through Europe's economic underbelly brilliantly charts the consequences of a world plagued by debt ... highly enjoyable ... nicely politically incorrect, often very funny, and shot through with genuine insight
Robert Harris
Sunday Times
Brilliant ... he has a novelist's gift
Spectator, Books of the Year
Lewis' investigation of bubbles across Europe is brilliantly, sadly hiliarious
GQ magazine
Caustically funny ... urgent and chilling ... a thought-provoking read
Ian Morris
Observer
Lewis is the finest storyteller of our generation
Malcolm Gladwell He is so good everyone else may as well pack up
Evening Standard
Michael Lewis meets some extraordinary characters in his excursion through the barely controlled madness that is modern finance ... lucid, entertaining
Tony Barber
Financial Times
He writes with the wit and observational eye of a travel writer
Richard Fitzpatrick
Irish Examiner
He writes quite brilliantly and understands the complex financial matters whereof he speaks. As polemical prose goes, it is hard to beat
Howard Davies
Management Today