How to Sell

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Sixteen-year-old high-school drop-out Bobby moves to Dallas to join his big brother Jim in the jewellery trade. Jim's glamorous girlfriend Lisa is the best saleswoman in the business and from the moment Bobby meets her he falls under her spell.

Bobby discovers a new world - glitzy, trashy and hedonistic - where sex and money rule. As the brothers' fortunes explode will their rivalry for Lisa ruin everything?

Dirty, greatly original, and very hard to stop reading
Jonathan Franzen

About Clancy Martin

A former owner of a variety of jewellery operations in Texas, Clancy Martin is presently an Associate Professor and Chair of Philosophy at the University of Missouri in Kansas City. He has translated Kierkegaard and Nietzsche, has written several books for Oxford University Press, and has published many essays, reviews and short stories. He is the author of the acclaimed novel How to Sell. He is married and has three daughters.

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Imprint: Vintage
Published: 03/06/2010
ISBN: 9780099532187
Length: 304 pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 19mm x 129mm
Weight: 211g
Price: £8.99

How to Sell

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Dirty, greatly original, and very hard to stop reading

How To Sell is a bleak, funny, unforgiving novel about how we buy and sell everything - merchandise, drugs, sex, trust, power, peace of mind, religion, friendship, and each other. It's written extremely finely, with wit and enviable self-control. A genuinely fresh, disconcerting voice

A relentless, clever, sordid novel about what lies at the heart of most transactions - sex and money

Smart, devious and sad

This book smells like a hit

Need a reason to reconsider buying a dubious Faberge egg this week? Try this tale of sex, drugs and dirty diamonds by a former jeweller (now philosophy professor), in which a young man is sucked into the depraved dark side of the high-end gems trade.

With this fast, dark novel, Clancy Martin shows there's no reason why a former jeweler who translates Nietzsche can't write like an angel on meth

A funny yet sad coming-of-age story

A funny, quirky takedown of the American dream. A bastard child of John Updike and Mordechai Richler, How To Sell grabs you by the tuchus and doesn't let go

Succeeds in the most important way a novel can: it makes a previously unimagined world as real as your own. A wonderful debut

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