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How to Sell
- Narrated by: Richard Powers
- Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
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Publisher's Summary
What follows is the story of a young man's education in two of the oldest human passions, love and money. Through a dark, sharp lens, Clancy Martin captures the luxury business in all its exquisite vulgarity and outrageous fraud, finding in the diamond-and-watch trade a metaphor for the American soul at work.
What the critics say
"The central narrative is engaging, a straightforward coming-of-age story. ... [R]eading Faulkner, I'm struck with the exhilarating awareness that immense questions are working themselves out right before my eyes; reading Martin, it's all too evident that commonplaces, worked out already and elsewhere, are being drafted in, or soldered on, to lend philosophical gravitas to what is, at base, a quite straight-up, noirish moral potboiler." (New York Times Book Review)
"This is one of those books that make you slap your forehead and marvel at the intricate lies that ensnare the unwary, even as you check to make sure your wallet and your wits are right where you left them." (O, the Oprah Magazine) "The fun, flash, and fakery of Martin's story are all on the surface, expertly hooking the most casual browser. But underneath it's a timely capitalist satire (wide-eyed Canadian Bobby Clark's unsentimental education in the dastardly business of American consumer culture) that stealthily creeps toward heartbreak." (New York Magazine)