Description
By the author of the #1 bestseller THE BIG SHORT and the original business classic LIAR'S POKER.
In Pacific Rift, Lewis follows the fortunes of two cultural transplants - Bob Collins, a forthright American insurance executive who lives and works in Tokyo, and Shuji Tomikawa, a Harvard-educated Japanese working for Mitsui Real Estate in New York City. Through his meetings with these men, the author is able to draw some surprising conclusions about current Japanese business practices, both in relation to foreigners attempting to trade with them, and in terms of their own headlong rush into overseas markets, from the Ginza bars of Tokyo to the wino gangs of Times Square.
'There is more tough sinew here than in a stack of weightier tomes' Publishers Weekly
A modern resissue of a bestselling classic, by the author of Liar's Poker and The Money Culture.
About the Author
Michael Lewis is a former banker who worked at Salamon Brothers in the height of Eighties boom. He writes regularly as a journalist and is the author of several books, including the international bestseller, LIAR'S POKER. Michael Lewis was born in New Orleans and educated at Princeton University and the London School of Economics. He has written several books including the international bestseller, Liar's Poker, widely considered the book that defined Wall Street during the 1980s. Lewis is contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine and also writes for Vanity Fair and Portfolio magazine. He is married with three children.
Reviews
Praise for LIAR'S POKER: 'An amazing book, readable, funny and mind-boggling ... one of the great business books of all time' * Punch *
Read all about it: headlong greed, inarticulate obscenity, Animal House horseplay . . . * The Sunday Times *
Immense verve and wit * 20/20 Magazine *
A highly immoral book * Daily Mail *
Wickedly funny * Daily Express *
As traders would say, this book is a buy * Financial Times *
Book Information
ISBN 9781444738070
Author Michael Lewis
Format Paperback
Page Count 128
Imprint Hodder Paperback
Publisher Hodder & Stoughton
Weight(grams) 100g
Dimensions(mm) 196mm * 130mm * 10mm
