A liberal young woman finds herself working for arrogant, greedy men on Wall Street while her beloved husband begins to suffer from the early onset of Alzheimer's Disease. A first novel.

Moral Hazard: A Novel

Literature & Fiction

Jennings, Kate

Literary

Fourth Estate

MORAL HAZARD

On Wall Street, reflects Cath, women are about as welcome as fleas in a sleeping bag. Funny, liberal and left-leaning, she is an unlikely candidate to be writing speeches on derivatives in a Manhattan tower, 'putting words in the mouths of plutocrats deeply suspicious of metaphors and words of more than two syllables'. She finds herself on Wall Street because she needs serious money. After ten good years, her beloved older husband Bailey is suffering from Alzheimer's.So begins Cath's journey into two nightmare worlds. By day she deals with the topsy-turvy logic and ingrown personalities at work in high finance; by night she has to watch the slow disintegration of the man she loves. In between, she must stop herself from falling apart. As the money markets hurtle towards financial meltdown, Cath faces personal disaster and a moral hazard that she cannot ignore.Kate Jennings' prose is lean yet rich in unexpected, telling detail. Tense, taut and compulsively readable, Moral Hazard is peopled by extraordinary characters and informed by a mordant, witty intelligence.

Moral Hazard

HarpPeren

Snake

Presents the mesmerizing story of a mismatched couple--ambitious and man-crazy Irene, and her quiet, adoring, and responsible husband, Rex--whose life together on a remote Australian farm unfolds inexorably, bitterly, and spectacularly. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

Contemporary

Back Bay Books

Picador

Second Sight

Iron Mountain Pr

An award-winning Australian writer makes her American debut with a story set in Australia in the fifties and sixties about a devoted, virtuous husband and his proto-feminist wife, a woman seething with anger and desire.

Ecco Pr

Now in paperback, a wise and moving book about two border terriers and the woman who lost her heart to them.“If Stanley had been a tad less overbearing and Sophie a tad more submissive, everything would have been fine rather than a roller-coaster of high drama and hurt feelings. The dynamic—part gender, part sibling—was familiar: I’d lived it. How did it come about that I was spending my days adjudicat- ing between two dogs who were acting out the story of my life?” Award-winning  author  Kate  Jennings  is a  fiercely  intelligent  writer,  an  astute observer  of  people  and  her  surround- ings,  an  irascible  Australian  with  no  time  for indulgent New Yorkers and their pampered pets, and a recent widow not yet ready to face her grief.  Then she meets Stanley, “a tense bundle of muscle and sinew that stood seventeen inches high,” and her unexpected love affair began. Swept off her feet and surprised by the depth of her love, Jennings’s life is sud- denly overtaken by two border terriers: Stanley, and then a few years later, Sophie. First and foremost, Stanley & Sophie is a book about animals, understanding them, doing the best by them. But it is also a book about the way two rival- rous, demanding, idiosyncratic, exhilarating dogs gave Jenningsdaily purpose and showed her the way to her own heart.

Stanley and Sophie (Thorndike Press Large Print Biography Series)

Biographies & Memoirs

Regional U.S.

Thorndike Pr

Traces the author's devoted relationship with a pair of border terriers, describing her struggles with widowhood in the aftermath of September 11, her observations about the cultural differences between New York and her native Australia, and the feelings of renewed purpose she experienced through her canine friends. 20,000 first printing.

Stanley and Sophie

Scribner

Now in paperback, a wise and moving book about two border terriers and the woman who lost her heart to them. 'If Stanley had been a tad less overbearing and Sophie a tad more submissive, everything would have been fine rather than a roller-coaster of high drama and hurt feelings. The dynamic part gender, part sibling was familiar: I'd lived it. How did it come about that I was spending my days adjudicat- ing between two dogs who were acting out the story of my life' Award-winning author Kate Jennings is a fiercely intelligent writer, an astute observer of people and her surround- ings, an irascible Australian with no time for indulgent New Yorkers and their pampered pets, and a recent widow not yet ready to face her grief. Then she meets Stanley, 'a tense bundle of muscle and sinew that stood seventeen inches high' and her unexpected love affair began. Swept off her feet and surprised by the depth of her love, Jennings's life is sud- denly overtaken by two border terriers: Stanley, and then a few years later, Sophie. First and foremost, Stanley &amp; Sophie is a book about animals, understanding them, doing the best by them. But it is also a book about the way two rival- rous, demanding, idiosyncratic, exhilarating dogs gave Jenningsdaily purpose and showed her the way to her own heart.

Large Print Format. In 1970 Kate Jennings, twenty-one, stunned a Sydney anti-war rally with a pull-no-punches speech that put women s lib on the map. Brave, impassioned and searing, the speech set the tone for the idiosyncratic career that was to follow. A few years later, she was on her way to New York, where she would make her name as a writer and enjoy a ringside seat at some of the most confronting events of our time. Trouble collects Jennings s best work from the last four decades. With a polemical anger tempered by a keen sense of the absurd and a fiercely independent streak, she writes incisively about politics, morality, finance, feminism and the writing life. She describes America with the keen eye of an outsider and looks back at Australia with an expatriate s frankness. Trouble is both an unconventional autobiography and a record of remarkable times. From the protest movements of the 1970s, via Wall Street s heyday and dramatic collapse, to the historic election of Barack Obama, Jennings captures the shifts seismic and subtle, personal and political that brought us to where we are now. After four decades, Kate Jennings work is as exhilarating and impossible to categorise shocking with the shock of recognition as the day it was written.

Trouble: (Large Print) Evolution of a Radical/Selected Writings 1970-2010

Arts & Literature

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Moral Hazard: A Novel

Moral Hazard

Snake

MORAL HAZARD

Second Sight

Snake

Stanley and Sophie (Thorndike Press Large Print Biography Series)

Stanley and Sophie

Stanley and Sophie

Trouble: (Large Print) Evolution of a Radical/Selected Writings 1970-2010