Boomerang: The Meltdown Tour
Michael Lewis
Boomerang: The Meltdown Tour
Having made the U.S. financial crisis comprehensible in The Big Short, Michael Lewis realised that he hadn't begun to get grips with the full story. How exactly had it come to hit the rest of the world in the face too? Just how broke are we really? Lewis aims to find out in this tragi-comic romp across Europe.
3.5 out of 5 based on 5 reviews
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Omniscore:
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| Classification |
Non-fiction |
| Genre |
Society, Politics & Philosophy, Business, Finance & Law |
| Format |
Hardback |
| Pages |
240 |
| RRP |
£20.00 |
| Date of Publication |
October 2011 |
| ISBN |
978-1846144844 |
| Publisher |
Allen Lane |
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Having made the U.S. financial crisis comprehensible in The Big Short, Michael Lewis realised that he hadn't begun to get grips with the full story. How exactly had it come to hit the rest of the world in the face too? Just how broke are we really? Lewis aims to find out in this tragi-comic romp across Europe.
US title: Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World
Reviews
The New York Times
Michiko Kakutani
"Michael Lewis possesses the rare storyteller’s ability to make virtually any subject both lucid and compelling. In his new book, “Boomerang,” he actually makes topics like European sovereign debt, the International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank not only comprehensible but also fascinating — even, or especially, to readers who rarely open the business pages or watch CNBC."
26/09/2011
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The Sunday Times
Robert Harris
"Highly enjoyable … It is all very gossipy and journalistic (the chapters mostly started out as articles for Vanity Fair), nicely politically incorrect, often very funny, and shot through with genuine insight. Most people who write well don’t understand money, while most people who understand money can’t write. Lewis ... is that rare combination: a fellow who can not only tell you what a collateralised debt obligation actually is, but make it sound amusing into the bargain."
09/10/2011
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The Daily Telegraph
Charles Moore
"Although he understands the intricacies and chicaneries of high finance better than most, Lewis is not disposed to explain the disaster which has befallen the western world as a brilliant deception of the many by the few. His essentially simple and serious message is that people wished to be deceived."
10/10/2011
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The Washington Post
Carlos Lozada
"Lewis has a wonderful talent for distilling complicated stories … But the book’s incessant moralizing and stereotyping may leave readers wondering why Lewis, beyond traveling throughout Europe, also took the path from master storyteller to itinerant scold."
10/05/2011
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The Financial Times
Tony Barber
"Lewis is a good, stylish writer and his judgments on the financial crisis and Europe’s stumbling efforts to overcome it are generally sound. But the book cries out for an organising theme and Lewis does not provide one … one has the impression that the publishers rushed the book into print — so quickly, in fact, that it lacks an index."
07/10/2011
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