{"product_id":"9781526634740","title":"Private Equity: 'A vivid account of a world of excess, power, admiration and status'","description":"Author: Sun, Carrie\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781526634740\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Bloomsbury\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 04 Jun 2024\u003cbr\u003ePages: 352 Format: Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cu\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eTIME\u003c\/i\u003e MUST-READ FOR 2024\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/u\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed a most-anticipated book of 2024 by the \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eStylist\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNPR.org,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eOprah Daily\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTown \u0026amp; Country\u003c\/i\u003e and more.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A moving story of how easily a life can be submerged by work, and what it takes to regain one's soul' Oliver Burkeman, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eFour Thousand Weeks\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat are you willing to sacrifice to get to the top?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat it might take to break free and leave it all behind?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCarrie Sun can't shake the feeling that she's wasting her life. \u003cbr\u003eAt twenty-nine, she's left her job, dropped out of an MBA program and is trapped in an unhappy engagement. So when she gets the opportunity to work at one of the most prestigious hedge funds in the world, she can't say no. Carrie is the sole assistant to the eEfirm's billionaire founder- she manages his work life, becomes his right hand and learns that money can solve nearly everything.\u003cbr\u003eBut amid the ultimate winners in our winner-take-all economy, Carrie sooneE finds her identity swallowed whole. With her physical and mental health deteriorating, she begins to rethink what it actually means to waste one's life. A searing examination of our relationship to work, \u003ci\u003ePrivate Equity\u003c\/i\u003e is a universal tale of self-invention from a dazzling new voice.\u003cbr\u003e----------------------\u003cbr\u003e'A penetrating but all the more necessary critique of extreme wealth and toxic work culture as (Sun) questions what it really means to waste one's life' \u003ci\u003eOprah Daily\u003c\/i\u003e, The Most Anticipated Books of 2024\u003cbr\u003e'Bound to fascinate and terrify titans of finance in equal measure. That's because Sun writes of her own experience as the right hand to a billionaire banker, and shares incredible insights from the world that he inhabited, and in which she herself got lost. It's an observant, fascinating look at a rarefied space of power and privilege that's rarely on public view, and an unparalleled peek inside a system that shapes us all, whether we know it or not.' \u003ci\u003eTown \u0026amp; Country\u003c\/i\u003e, Must-Read Books of Winter 2024","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46629816467614,"sku":"UBD-9781526634740","price":49.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781526634740.jpg?v=1774221958","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781526634740","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}