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THE DEAD CELEBRITIES CLUB
For fans of The Sellout by Paul Beatty and The Wolf of Wall Street, comes multiple prize finalist and internationally bestselling author Susan Swan's latest novel THE DEAD CELEBRITIES CLUB.
In this satirical gem, the ultimate con man and hedge fund whale Dale Paul is a witty, self-absorbed rogue and raconteur who may or may not be an unreliable narrator (okay, he's unreliable).
However, charm and childhood connections to billionaire media personality Earl Lindquist - a candidate for the American presidency, touting divisive new policies - aren't enough to stop Dale Paul from being sent to an upstate New York white collar jail on multiple counts of fraud for gambling away US military pensions.
Promising himself to earn back his son's previously gambled inheritance (the hedge fund, remember?) Dale Paul dreams up an illegal lottery for his fellow inmates based on the death of old and frail celebrities called 'The Dead Celebrities Club'. As an added perk, he manages to take revenge on old friends like Earl who have abandoned him while he's in the slammer.
Disgraced and for once in his life, penniless, Dale Paul's relationships with his family deteriorate while he works on his scheme to make himself rich again.
Win or lose, Dale Paul goes through a sea change that may (or may not) make a new man of him. But will the enterprising gambler get caught in his own con?
Susan Swan's critically acclaimed fiction has been published in fifteen countries and translated into eight languages. Rights for a television series based on Swan's first novel The Biggest Modern Woman of the World have recently been sold to Temple Productions, whose projects include the TV series Orphan Black. Nominated for the Governor General's Literary Award and Books in Canada's first novel award, The Biggest Modern Woman of the World tells the life story of a giantess who exhibited with P.T. Barnum. Swan's last novel, The Western Light published in 2012 is a prequel to The Wives of Bath, her bestselling gothic novel about a murder in a girls' school. A finalist for the Guardian Fiction Prize and the Trillium Book Award, The Wives of Bath was made into the feature film Lost and Delirious, shown in 32 countries. A previous novel What Casanova Told Me was a finalist for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize; it was named a top book of the year by The Globe and Mail and published by Knopf, Canada, Bloomsbury US and in Spain, Russia, Poland, Serbia and Portugal. Swan's other novels include The Last of the Golden Girls, published in Canada and the US, and Stupid Boys are Good to Relax With. Swan lives in Toronto. She was awarded York University's Robarts Chair in Canadian Studies in 2000.
However, charm and childhood connections to billionaire media personality Earl Lindquist - a candidate for the American presidency, touting divisive new policies - aren't enough to stop Dale Paul from being sent to an upstate New York white collar jail on multiple counts of fraud for gambling away US military pensions.
Promising himself to earn back his son's previously gambled inheritance (the hedge fund, remember?) Dale Paul dreams up an illegal lottery for his fellow inmates based on the death of old and frail celebrities called 'The Dead Celebrities Club'. As an added perk, he manages to take revenge on old friends like Earl who have abandoned him while he's in the slammer.
Disgraced and for once in his life, penniless, Dale Paul's relationships with his family deteriorate while he works on his scheme to make himself rich again.
Win or lose, Dale Paul goes through a sea change that may (or may not) make a new man of him. But will the enterprising gambler get caught in his own con?
Susan Swan's critically acclaimed fiction has been published in fifteen countries and translated into eight languages. Rights for a television series based on Swan's first novel The Biggest Modern Woman of the World have recently been sold to Temple Productions, whose projects include the TV series Orphan Black. Nominated for the Governor General's Literary Award and Books in Canada's first novel award, The Biggest Modern Woman of the World tells the life story of a giantess who exhibited with P.T. Barnum. Swan's last novel, The Western Light published in 2012 is a prequel to The Wives of Bath, her bestselling gothic novel about a murder in a girls' school. A finalist for the Guardian Fiction Prize and the Trillium Book Award, The Wives of Bath was made into the feature film Lost and Delirious, shown in 32 countries. A previous novel What Casanova Told Me was a finalist for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize; it was named a top book of the year by The Globe and Mail and published by Knopf, Canada, Bloomsbury US and in Spain, Russia, Poland, Serbia and Portugal. Swan's other novels include The Last of the Golden Girls, published in Canada and the US, and Stupid Boys are Good to Relax With. Swan lives in Toronto. She was awarded York University's Robarts Chair in Canadian Studies in 2000.
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