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The Wolf of Wall Street

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 The Wolf of Wall Street


基本信息出版社:Hodder Paperbacks
页码:528 页
出版日期:2008年09月
ISBN:0340953756
条形码:9780340953754
装帧:平装
正文语种:英语
外文书名:华尔街的狼

内容简介 By day he made thousands of dollars a minute. By night he spent it as fast as he could, on drugs, sex, and international globe-trotting. From the binge that sunk a 170-foot motor yacht, crashed a Gulfstream jet, and ran up a $700,000 hotel tab, to the wife and kids who waited for him for at home, and the fast-talking, hard-partying young stockbrokers who called him king and did his bidding, here, in his own inimitable words, is the story of the ill-fated genius they called…
作者简介 Jordan Belfort was born in Queens, New York, the son of accountants 'his mother wanted him to be a doctor'. He hustled ices to put himself through college showing early entrepreneurial flair. His first business sent him bankrupt at 24, so he went down to Wall St with $100 in his pocket and through a series of wild coincidences and leaps of logic ended up building one of the largest brokerages in America – the now infamous Stratton Oakmont. Ultimately indicted by the federal government, Belfort served twenty-two months in prison, spent one month in rehab, and is currently living in Los Angeles, California.
编辑推荐 Review
'The wicked wolf of Wall Street ... Cocaine. Girls. James Bond cars. Billion-dollar deals and jail for fraud ... the outrageous memoirs of the real Gordon Gekko' -- Daily Mail 'A cocky bad boy of finance recalls ... [his] career as a master of his own universe ... A hell of a read.' -- Kirkus 'A memoir that reads like fiction ... [about a] vast amount of sex, drugs and risky physical behavior Belfort managed to survive.' -- Publishers Weekly 'Reads like a cross between Tom Wolfes Bonfire of the Vanities and Scorseses Goodfellas ... Laugh-out-loud funny' -- The Sunday Times 'Gleefully crass and terribly sad [but] you actually feel for the guy' -- Rolling Stone 'This book reads like The Financial World presented by Ozzy Osbourne ... One reads a book like this for tales of excess, and Belfort certainly delivers, to the point where you long for a night in with Dad's Army and something eggy on a plate.' -- Mail on Sunday 'For those not completely familiar with Wall Street, this is an important read. Think of it as a tour of the sort of underbelly of the financial market scene, the dark side of which, in some form, is always out there. For those more experienced, this can be, plain and simple, a fun read.' -- TheStreet.com

Review
'The wicked wolf of Wall Street . . . Cocaine. Girls. James Bond cars. Billion-dollar deals and jail for fraud . . . the outrageous memoirs of the real Gordon Gekko' (Daily Mail )

'A cocky bad boy of finance recalls ... [his] career as a master of his own universe .... A hell of a read.' (Kirkus )

'A memoir that reads like fiction ... [about a] vast amount of sex, drugs and risky physical behavior Belfort managed to survive.' (Publishers Weekly )

'Reads like a cross between Tom Wolfes Bonfire of the Vanities and Scorseses Goodfellas .... Laugh-out-loud funny' (The Sunday Times )

'Gleefully crass and terribly sad [but] you actually feel for the guy' (Rolling Stone )

'This book reads like The Financial World presented by Ozzy Osbourne . . . One reads a book like this for tales of excess, and Belfort certainly delivers, to the point where you long for a night in with Dad's Army and something eggy on a plate.' (Mail on Sunday )

'For those not completely familiar with Wall Street, this is an important read. Think of it as a tour of the sort of underbelly of the financial market scene, the dark side of which, in some form, is always out there. For those more experienced, this can be, plain and simple, a fun read.' (TheStreet.com )

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