Very Recent History
An Entirely Factual Account of a Year (c. AD 2009) in a Large City
HarperCollins · Print & ebook · August 6, 2013
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- Who it’s for
- Follow young New Yorkers through a year of love, money, and shifting fortunes after 2008.
- Themes
- Money and power, Love and connection, Life after the 2008 Wall Street crash
- Genres
- 21st-Century History, Gay Studies, Urban Life
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Very Recent History by Choire Sicha is an idiosyncratic and elegant narrative that follows a handful of young men in New York City as they navigate the ruins of money and power—in search of love and connection. After the Wall Street crash of 2008, the richest man in town is the mayor. Billionaires shed apartments like last season’s fashions, even as the country’s economy turns inside out.
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The young and careless go on as they always have, getting laid and getting laid off, falling in and out of love, and trying to navigate the strange world they traffic in: the Internet, complex financial markets, credit cards, pop stars, micro-plane cheese graters, and sex apps. A true-life fable of money, sex, and politics, Choire Sicha’s Very Recent History: An Entirely Factual Account of a Year (c. AD 2009) in a Large City turns our focus to a year in the life of a great city.
City After the Crash
Follow young New Yorkers through a year of love, money, and shifting fortunes after 2008.
Come here for
- Money, sex, politics, and city life in one idiosyncratic narrative
- The strange details of a changing New York
Expect
- A year’s-eye view of life after the financial crash
- An elegant true-life fable with an irreverent edge
Where it sits
| 21st-Century History | 44% |
|---|---|
| Urban Life | 36% |
| Gay Studies | 30% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Economic History
- World History
- 20th-Century History
- 21st-Century History
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- Social History
- Political Philosophy
- World Politics
- Geopolitics
- Authors
- Choire Sicha
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Published
- August 6, 2013
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Money and power · Love and connection · Life after the 2008 Wall Street crash
- Reading lane
- Economic History