The Hunger of the Wolf

Publisher Marketing: A breakout book from Stephen Marche, "The Hunger of the Wolf" is a novel about the way we live now: a sweeping, genre-busting tale of money, morality, and the American Dream and the men and monsters who profit in its pursuit set in New York, London, and the Canadian wilderness."Hunters found his body naked in the snow." So begins this astonishing new work of literary fiction. The body in the snow is that of Ben Wylie, the heir to America s second-wealthiest business dynasty, and it is found in a remote patch of northern Canada. Far away, in post-crash New York, Jamie Cabot, the son of the Wylie family s housekeepers, must figure out how and why Ben died. He knows the answer lies in the tortured history of the Wylie family who, over three generations, built up their massive holdings into several billion dollars worth of real estate, oil, and information systems, despite a terrible family secret they must keep from the world. The threads of the Wylie men s destinies, both financial and supernatural, lead twistingly but inevitably to the naked body in the snow and a final, chilling revelation."The Hunger of the Wolf" is a novel about what it means to be a man in the world of money. It is a story of fathers and sons, about secrets that are kept within families, and about the cost of the tension between the public face and the private soul. Spanning from the mills of Depression-era Pittsburgh to the swinging London of the 1960s, from desolate Alberta to the factories of present-day China, it is a bold and breathtakingly ambitious work of fiction that uses the story of a single family to capture the way we live now." Review Citations: Library Journal Prepub Alert 09/15/2014 pg. 45 (EAN 9781476730813, Hardcover) Booklist 11/01/2014 pg. 22 (EAN 9781476730813, Hardcover) - *Starred Review Kirkus Reviews 12/01/2014 (EAN 9781476730813, Hardcover) Publishers Weekly 12/22/2014 (EAN 9781476730813, Hardcover) Library Journal 01/01/2015 pg. 94 (EAN 9781476730813, Hardcover) Contributor Bio:  Marche, Stephen Stephen Marche is a novelist and culture writer. For the past five years he has written a monthly column for Esquire magazine, A Thousand Words About Our Culture, as well as regular features and opinion pieces for The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New Republic, and elsewhere. He lives in Toronto with his wife and children.