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What I Lived For

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Jerome "Corky" Corcorn is a money-juggling wheeler dealer, rising politico, popular man's man, and successful womanizer. It is a Memorial Day weekend, and we are about to live with him, breathe with him, and sweat with him in a nonstop marathon of mounting desperation as he tries to keep his financial empire from unraveling, his love life from shredding, and his rebellious daughter from destroying both herself and him. Seldom in fiction has a man been brought so vividly to life in all his strength and weakness, hunger and ambition, carnality and corruption. Rarely has the complex web of American society been revealed so rivetingly.

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Publisher
HarperCollins
Year
2019
ISBN-13
9780062795847
Genre
Fiction
Topics
Moral corruption and downfallAmbition and greedFamily and fatherhood