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Item Information       Summary     More Content     More by this author     Mountford, Peter, 1976-     Subjects     World Bank -- Employees -- Fiction.     Middle-aged men -- Fiction.     Widowers -- Fiction.     Economists -- Fiction.     Loss (Psychology) -- Fiction.     Identity (Psychology) -- Fiction.     Washington Metropolitan Area -- Fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Mountford, Peter, 1976-       by title:      The dismal science :...         MARC Display

The dismal science : a novel / Peter Mountford. by Mountford, Peter, 1976- Portland, Oregon : Tin House Books ; Berkeley, Calif. : Distributed to the trade by Publishers Group West, 2014. Subjects World Bank -- Employees -- Fiction.   Middle-aged men -- Fiction.   Widowers -- Fiction.   Economists -- Fiction.   Loss (Psychology) -- Fiction.   Identity (Psychology) -- Fiction.   Washington Metropolitan Area -- Fiction. ISBN:  9781935639725 (pbk.) : 1935639722 (pbk.) Description:  275 pages ; 20 cm Edition:  First U.S. edition. Requests:  0 Summary:  "The Dismal Science tells of a middle-aged vice president at the World Bank, Vincenzo D'Orsi, who publicly quits his job over a seemingly minor argument with a colleague. A scandal inevitably ensues, and he systematically burns every bridge to his former life. After abandoning his career, Vincenzo, a recent widower, is at a complete loss as to what to do with himself. The story follows his efforts to rebuild his identity without a vocation or the company of his wife. An exploration of the fragile nature of identity, The Dismal Science reveals the terrifying speed with which a person's sense of self can be annihilated. It is at once a study of a man attempting to apply his reason to the muddle of life and a book about how that same ostensible rationality, and the mathematics of finance in particular, operates-with similarly dubious results-in our world. "--   Copy/Holding information No Item Information

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