Description: Jonathan Dee is the critically acclaimed author of Palladio. With The Privileges, Dee crafts a "suspenseful, melancholy, and acidly funny tale" (Booklist). In it, ambitious couple Adam and Cynthia Morey marry straight out of college and have two children. Then Adam, unfulfilled with his job at a private investment firm, becomes involved in insider trading and gains excessive wealth for his family. But as Adam and Cynthia discover, money can't buy happiness. "Thoughtful and bracingly unpredictable ."-Kirkus Reviews
Brief description:
Jonathan Dee is the author of several novels, a staff writer for the New York Times Magazine, a frequent contributor to Harper's, and a former senior editor of the Paris Review. He teaches in the graduate writing programs at Columbia and the New School.
Review Quotes:
"The Privileges is verbally brilliant, intellectually astute, and intricately knowing. It is also very funny and a great, great pleasure to read. Jonathan Dee is a wonderful writer."