The Best (And Worst) Fiction Of The Financial Crisis

First Posted: 5/19/10 Updated: 5/25/11

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Telegraph:

Fiction has never been a particular friend of high finance. Even before banker-bashing became common currency, literature reserved a special scorn for the emotionless, money-obsessed financier from Emile Zola's L'Argent to Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho.

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