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Carrie Sun
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Carrie Sun
About this listen
Bloomsbury presents Private Equity written and read by Carrie Sun.
A TIME MUST-READ FOR 2024
‘A moving story of how easily a life can be submerged by work, and what it takes to regain one's soul’
Oliver Burkeman, bestselling author of Four Thousand Weeks
What are you willing to sacrifice to get to the top? What might it take to leave it all behind?
Carrie Sun can’t shake the feeling that she’s wasting her life. At twenty-nine, she’s left her job, dropped out of an MBA program and is trapped in an unhappy engagement. So when she gets the opportunity to work at one of the most prestigious hedge funds in the world – as the sole assistant to the firm’s billionaire founder – she can’t say no.
But playing the game at the highest levels comes at a cost. Amid the ultimate winners in our winner-takes-all economy, Carrie soon finds her identity swallowed whole, struggling for balance in a world of extremes: of efficiency and excess, status and aspiration, power and fortune.
‘A penetrating but all the more necessary critique of extreme wealth and toxic work culture as [Sun] questions what it really means to waste one’s life’ Oprah Daily, The Most Anticipated Books of 2024
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- LRC
- 04-03-24
Brilliant.
What a brilliant, sensitive and nuanced piece of writing. Superbly paced by the author/narrator. I’m in awe. 👏🏼
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- Anonymous User
- 21-05-24
Trivial book
Even though the story resonates with my similar experience, the plot itself is quite simple and with obvious ending. Shortly, it’s not the book you will remember.
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- Katharine
- 29-05-24
Amazing and very accurate inside into this world
So glad I persevered with this book. I loved the first few hours, and the story was gripping and scarily accurate of this world (I kept thinking how has she got away with writing so truthfully!)
I did struggle in the middle to keep my attention levels up but glad I came back to the book as some of the best and most poignant parts of her story are in the second half to the end. Thought provoking xx
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- MarCar
- 21-05-24
A truly disappointing read
I am really sorry for I am going to be very negative about this book. I could summarise the entire book with "ehy look at me! I am smart and beautiful and rich and you don't, actually, nobody does deserve me". It is bad to the point of being cringe at times. The author may have a very high IQ but had 0 EQ and trashes a life and a job that most people could only dream of. Apart from that, the narrative style is amateurish and so very boring. I have no idea how she was able to get a deal with Penguin. But I can venture a guess that it was thanks to the very job and boss that she trashed in her book and the many people that she got to meet because of these. A true disappointment.
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