The Hunger of the Wolf, Stephen Marche
The Hunger of the Wolf, Stephen Marche
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The Hunger of the Wolf
A Novel

Author: Stephen Marche

Narrator: Richard Powers

Unabridged: 8 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/03/2015

Synopsis

A breakout book from Stephen Marche, The Hunger of the Wolf is a novel about the way we live now: a sweeping, genre-busting tale of money, morality, and the American Dream—and the men and monsters who profit in its pursuit—set in New York, London, and the Canadian wilderness.Hunters found his body naked in the snow. So begins this astonishing new work of literary fiction. The body in the snow is that of Ben Wylie, the heir to America's second-wealthiest business dynasty, and it is found in a remote patch of northern Canada. Far away, in post-crash New York, Jamie Cabot, the son of the Wylie family's housekeepers, must figure out how and why Ben died. He knows the answer lies in the tortured history of the Wylie family who, over three generations, built up their massive holdings into several billion dollars' worth of real estate, oil, and information systems, despite a terrible family secret they must keep from the world. The threads of the Wylie men's destinies, both financial and supernatural, lead twistingly but inevitably to the naked body in the snow and a final, chilling revelation.The Hunger of the Wolf is a novel about what it means to be a man in the world of money. It is a story of fathers and sons, about secrets that are kept within families, and about the cost of the tension between the public face and the private soul. Spanning from the mills of Depression-era Pittsburgh to the swinging London of the 1960s, from desolate Alberta to the factories of present-day China, it is a bold and breathtakingly ambitious work of fiction that uses the story of a single family to capture the way we live now.

About Stephen Marche

Stephen Marche is a novelist and culture writer. For several years he has written a monthly column for Esquire magazine, “A Thousand Words about Our Culture,” as well as regular features and opinion pieces for the Atlantic, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, New Republic, and elsewhere. His books include the novels Raymond and Hannah and Shining at the Bottom of the Sea, as well as the nonfiction work How Shakespeare Changed Everything. He lives in Toronto with his family.

About Richard Powers

Richard Powers has published thirteen novels. He is a MacArthur Fellow and received the National Book Award. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Overstory, and Bewilderment was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Missy on March 01, 2018

To the person that wrote this book is the next best thing since Cloud Atlas, f*ck you for tainting the name of David Mitchell with an association to such mediocrity.......more

Goodreads review by Patty on March 09, 2015

The Hunger Of The Wolf By Stephen Marche Key characters...and what is going down with them... The most amazing and fascinating characters in this book are the Wylie men...all of them. At first I thought that they were just amazing business men who overcame a struggling life to become billionaires...but......more

Goodreads review by Brett on April 01, 2015

Stephen Marche is a brilliant writer and I expect he has it within him to become one of Canada's greatest writers. However, in many ways his newest novel struck me as a lazy effort on his part. Marche has the ability of holding a reader's interest even when writing about the mundane; he is never bor......more

Goodreads review by Yanique on March 21, 2021

3.3 stars “What more do you want?” The question that summarizes this entire story. I love multigenerational stories. The historical aspect of this story was handled wonderfully. It meandered realistically like the actual path a life takes. Not every event was forward moving, but there was a combinatio......more

Goodreads review by Marilyn on May 17, 2017

I liked the very beginning and thought it would be an interesting read, but I found much that was distasteful. Granted the characters were the ones making racist and misogynistic remarks at times, but there was no context that needed it, so the error was on the part of the author. There was also too......more

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“I read this book in basically a single sitting yesterday and have thought of little else since. It’s the kind of novel that makes me want to turn the last page and immediately turn it over and start reading it again. The Hunger of the Wolf is a modern masterpiece: The Great Gatsby for the new gilded age.” James Frey, New York Times bestselling author

“A dazzling virtuoso piece. Marche turns the making of a family’s fortune into a fascinating, bloody fairy tale.” Emma Donoghue, New York Times bestselling author of Room

“Marche has created a stunning, evocative, and impressionistic account of the ascent of wealth in the twentieth century…The Hunger of the Wolf could be Marche’s breakthrough novel.” Booklist (starred review)

“The nature of family bonds and wealth are at the heart of this spellbinding tale from Marche…Despite the novel’s account of their dramatic accumulation of a peerless fortune, the Wylies remain mysterious—not only to Jamie and to the public but also to one another. No word is out of place in this taut multigenerational tale, which takes some enjoyable supernatural turns—readers will be just as driven as Jamie to discover the mystery at the heart of the Wylie’s legacy.” Publishers Weekly

“Author of the popular Esquire column ‘A Thousand Words about Our Culture,’ as well as much praised, edgy works like Shining at the Bottom of the Sea, Marche returns with a new book that’s au courant, blessed with a touch of the thriller, and billed as his breakout.” Library Journal

“Marche scrutinizes the rapaciousness of contemporary media moguls by cleverly reimagining them as actual wolves…An entertaining, curious journey into the beating black hearts that occupy the penthouse suites and those who aspire to join them.” Kirkus Reviews

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