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A hedge-fund protagonist – Gary Shteyngart takes aim in Lake Success

29 September 2018

9:00 AM

29 September 2018

9:00 AM

‘We lived in a country that rewarded its worst people. We lived in a society where the villains were favoured to win.’ So says Seema, the 29-year-old wife of hedge-fund manager Barry Cohen in Gary Shteyngart’s fourth novel, Lake Success. The relationship between fiction and the world of high finance has a complicated history.

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