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The Unruly Monkey: Reflections on Life, Love, and Money.
by Train, John [Peter Matthiessen]
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
Artisan Press, 2011. First edition of this classic work by the founding editor of The Paris Review. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by John Train on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. From the library of novelist Peter Matthiessen with his bookplate to the front pastedown. Matthiessen was a founding member of The Paris Review. An exceptional association. There are only a handful of great collections of personal thoughts, opinions and conclusions based on the author's rich experience of the world. This one, the harvest of a large life in dozens of countries and situations, has been accepted as one of the unique accumulations of wisdom and experience in recent centuries. It stands in the company of the Maxims of la Rochefoucauld and Eric Hoffer's The True Believer. The author draws his observations from his many careers: as an advisor to Latin American trade unions, as a New York stock market wizard (according to Louis Rukeyser of Wall Street Week), a creator of dozens of companies in many countries. He is also a prolific writer. Train has lived for years in Italy, where he married a Florentine, and in Paris, where he was a founder of the Paris Review, ran a wine chateau, and created a highly successful finance company. In London, he was a director of a merchant bank and several very large emerging market mutual funds.
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- Raptis Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 144372
- Title
- The Unruly Monkey: Reflections on Life, Love, and Money.
- Author
- Train, John [Peter Matthiessen]
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Artisan Press
- Date Published
- 2011
- Keywords
- and Money First Edition, Love, The Unruly Monkey: Reflections on Life
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