{"product_id":"book-gttk","title":"Western Alliances","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Caroline Hewitt narrates this tale of the wealthy Costa family so intimately that listeners will be convinced she has insider status with this dysfunctional group.\"- \u003ci\u003eAudioFile\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e-bestselling author of\u003ci\u003e Lookaway, Lookaway\u003c\/i\u003e, Wilton Barnhardt’s \u003ci\u003eWestern Alliances\u003c\/i\u003e is a vivid portrait of a wealthy family set against the backdrop of the 2008 financial crisis. This laugh-out-loud, darkly funny novel follows the Costa family—whose members are every bit as richly absurd as the characters in HBO’s \u003ci\u003eSuccession\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSalvador, the patriarch, runs one of Wall Street’s biggest banks the summer before everything collapses; Roberto and Rachel, his two children, have never worked a day in their lives; and Lena, his ex-wife, is a scheming hypochondriac. Part travelogue, part epic family drama, the novel follows Roberto and Rachel across Europe as the two dilettantes come to terms with their father’s choices and the repercussions of his actions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOozing with his signature satire and biting wit, Barnhardt invites listeners on a literary romp from an elegant Paris apartment to a hilariously-inept London hotel, ancient churches and crypts to gleaming Mediterranean coasts, hot dog stands in Providence, Rhode Island to the best places in Manhattan, and terrifying encounters in the Serbian countryside to dangerous liaisons in Moscow, as two grown-up rich kids are forced to come of age at last. In \u003ci\u003eWestern Alliances \u003c\/i\u003eBarnhardt he delivers a riveting saga examining privilege, loyalty, ambition, and what family members owe to one another.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin’s Press.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Macmillan Audio","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49353556689200,"sku":"BDgttk","price":32.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/425210-gttk-Square.jpg?v=1734349216","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-gttk","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}