Standard Deviations Growing up and Coming down in the New Asia

Name: Standard Deviations Growing up and Coming down in the New Asia
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ISBN: 9780812992694

ISBN-10: 0812992695

ISBN-13: 9780812992694

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Authors: Karl Taro Greenfeld

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“I was twenty-three and I had set off for Asia to become a writer, intrigued by lurid tales of booms, busts, drugs, sex, violence, magic. There was a wicked sorcery in Asia, in the economic profligacy of the early nineties, in the way financiers and businessmen took a rapidly wiring and developing continent and looted billions, like a titanic parlor trick converting all that wealth into abandoned office complexes and half-completed shopping malls. . . . I wanted it all—the money, the sex, the drugs. And to this day I believe that if I am honest with myself, despite all I have learned the hard way over the past decade, I would still want it all again, the fucking and the getting loaded and…

Book details

List price: $19.00
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 7/2/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.814
Language: English

Karl Taro Greenfeld is a former Tokyo correspondent for The Nation. A longtime staff writer for Time, he is currently living in Hong Kong, where he is the deputy editor of Time Asia.