Mergers & Acquisitions is the story of Tommy Quinn, a recent Georgetown graduate who has just landed the job of his dreams as an investment banker at J. S. Spenser, and the perfect girl, Frances Sloan, the daughter of one of New York's oldest moneyed families. As he travels from the most exclusive ballrooms of the Racquet and Tennis Club to the stuffiest boardrooms of J. S. Spenser, from the golf links of Piping Rock to the bedrooms of Park Avenue, and from the debauched yacht of a Mexican billionaire to the Ritalin-strewn prep-school dorm room of his younger brother, he finds that the job and the girl are not what they once seemed. Sharply written, fast-paced, and bitingly witty, Mergers & Acquisitions is a compulsively readable story of Manhattan's young, ambitious and wealthy. Set against the backdrop of money, lust, power, corruption, cynicism, energy and excitement that is Wall Street, it is suffused with an authenticity that only an author who lives in that world can provide. A former investment banker at J. P. Morgan, Vachon offers an insider's point of view on the financial scene, and he knows the moneyed turf of Manhattan inside out.
Mergers & Acquisitions is the story of Tommy Quinn, a recent Georgetown graduate who has just landed the job of his dreams as an investment banker at J. S. Spenser, and the perfect girl, Frances Sloan, the daughter of one of New York's oldest moneyed families. As he travels from the most exclusive ballrooms of the Racquet and Tennis Club to the stuffiest boardrooms of J. S. Spenser, from the golf links of Piping Rock to the bedrooms of Park Avenue, and from the debauched yacht of a Mexican billionaire to the Ritalin-strewn prep-school dorm room of his younger brother, he finds that the job and the girl are not what they once seemed. Sharply written, fast-paced, and bitingly witty, Mergers & Acquisitions is a compulsively readable story of Manhattan's young, ambitious and wealthy. Set against the backdrop of money, lust, power, corruption, cynicism, energy and excitement that is Wall Street, it is suffused with an authenticity that only an author who lives in that world can provide. A former investment banker at J. P. Morgan, Vachon offers an insider's point of view on the financial scene, and he knows the moneyed turf of Manhattan inside out.
A stylish and hilarious novel about the lives and loves of well-to-do young Manhattanites in their first year on Wall Street - destined to become one of the year's most talked-about debuts.
Dana Vachon was born in Greenwich, Connecticut, raised in Chappaqua, New York, and graduated from Duke University - as he claims, 'cum nihil' - in 2002. After graduation, he worked as an analyst at JPMorgan. His writing has appeared in the International Herald Tribune, Men's Vogue, the New York Times and Salon. He lives in New York City.
"In one slim volume [Vachon] updates the 1980s canon "Bright Lights, Big City", "Barbarians at the Gate", and "Bonfire of the Vanities", taking readers into the depths of a young man's ordeal inside a thinly disguised Wall Street firm." -- "Newsweek" "A witty and entertaining immorality tale which should earn Vachon many fans, if not necessarily among his friends and family." -- Jay McInerney "A funny romp." -- "People" "Dana Vachon exposes the carnal and financial lusts of his generation's privileged and ambitious as few others have in recent years." -- Candace Bushnell
Georgetown grad Tommy Quinn lands the golden (investment bank) job and the golden (high-society) girl-and then decides it's all a sham. From a first novelist who's been there, done that. Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.
"In one slim volume [Vachon] updates the 1980s canon "Bright Lights, Big City", "Barbarians at the Gate", and "Bonfire of the Vanities", taking readers into the depths of a young man's ordeal inside a thinly disguised Wall Street firm." -- "Newsweek" "A witty and entertaining immorality tale which should earn Vachon many fans, if not necessarily among his friends and family." -- Jay McInerney "A funny romp." -- "People" "Dana Vachon exposes the carnal and financial lusts of his generation's privileged and ambitious as few others have in recent years." -- Candace Bushnell
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