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Bobby Clark is just sixteen when he drops out of school to follow his big brother, Jim, into the jewelry business. Bobby idolizes Jim and is in awe of Jim's girlfriend, Lisa, the best saleswoman at the Fort Worth Deluxe Diamond Exchange. What follows is the story of a young man's education in two of the oldest human passions: love and money. Through a dark, sharp lens, Clancy Martin captures the luxury business in all its exquisite vulgarity and outrageous fraud, finding in the diamond-and-watch trade a metaphor for the American soul at work.… (plus d'informations)

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Described on the jacket as "Raymond Carver without hope," I have to agree that this book was bleak even for me, the original grim novel consumer. Drugs, sex, thievery, deception, jewelry scams and sales, it was educational, filled with unhappy, unregenerate souls yet I could not stop reading just to see if anyone made it out alive. The writing was heavily dialogue. (

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featherbooks | May 7, 2024 |

A little hard to see what all the fuss is about. HOW TO SELL is droll and reasonably emblematic of our times, but hardly the dazzling tour de force and fictional indictment of contemporary consumerism that some folks are claiming it for. A while back Martin had a (presumably nonfiction) piece in the LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS that was a good deal more harrowing and vivid than anything in this book. (

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MikeLindgren51 | Aug 7, 2018 |

Reviews were everywhere, but this book was weird! Well written in a spare, elegant manner, it left me wanting to take a shower. People you never want to meet! Will be afraid to buy jewelery again, and will now never buy a Rolex (LOL)! (

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Rdra1962 | Aug 1, 2018 |

An oddly engaging story. (

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dcmr | Jul 4, 2017 |

"Requiem for a Dream" in the jewelry business. It provided some interesting reflections on how people sell...well, everything (jewelry, self-esteem, sex, love, ideas, drugs, emotion, connection, identity). Not a great novel, but a good one with little gems (sic) popping up occasionally, like: "He had lied to me thousands of times. He lied to me almost as much as he lied to his customers...And if you told him he lied he would deny it with a sincere heart. He was extraordinarily healthy. Psychologically, I mean." (

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The novel is a good, pacey and ultimately unchallenging read. Why couldn’t they just say that on the cover? “Entertaining, zippy and unchallenging — X, author of Y.”

ajouté par jam13 | modifierNew York Times, Tom McCarthy (May 14, 2009)

If you ever bought overpriced jewelry from Clancy Martin, he's sorry. If you buy his novel, you won't be.

ajouté par jlelliott | modifierNewsweek, Louisa Thomas (May 2, 2009)

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Bobby Clark is just sixteen when he drops out of school to follow his big brother, Jim, into the jewelry business. Bobby idolizes Jim and is in awe of Jim's girlfriend, Lisa, the best saleswoman at the Fort Worth Deluxe Diamond Exchange. What follows is the story of a young man's education in two of the oldest human passions: love and money. Through a dark, sharp lens, Clancy Martin captures the luxury business in all its exquisite vulgarity and outrageous fraud, finding in the diamond-and-watch trade a metaphor for the American soul at work.

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