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Bright, ambitious Sophie Landgraf has landed a job as a Wall Street analyst. The small-town girl finally has her ticket to the American elite, but she doesn''t realize the toll it will take-on her boyfriend, on her family, and on her. It isn''t long before Sophie is floundering in this male-dominated world, and things are about to get worse. With the financial crisis looming, Sophie becomes embroiled in a multibillion-dollar merger that could make or break her career. The problem? Three men at the top of their game, each with very different reasons for advancing the merger. Now Sophie doesn''t know whom to trust-or how far she''ll go to get ahead. Set inside the high-stakes world of finance, Manhattan''s after-hours clubs, and factories in the Midwest and India, this is the high-powered, heartfelt story of a young woman finding her footing on Wall Street as it crumbles beneath her. Written by an industry veteran, Buying In tackles what it means to be a woman in a man''s world, and how to survive in big business without sacrificing who you are.
Buying In, by Laura Hemphill- Published on: 2015-09-22
- Formats: Audiobook, MP3 Audio, Unabridged
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 6.75" h x .50" w x 5.25" l,
- Running time: 11 Hours
- Binding: MP3 CD
From Publishers Weekly The world of high finance provides a thrilling setting for Hemphill's fine debut about survival in a cutthroat business where millions of dollars are at stake and the wrong comment can cost you your job. Sophie Landgraf, from smalltown Massachusetts, lands a lucrative Wall Street job out of college as an analyst for Sterling, while her college boyfriend struggles to make ends meet at an entry-level position at NPR. Sophie befriends a colleague, Vasu Mehta, who, after seven years on the job, is used to the grueling work but longs to spend more time with his family. Ethan Pearce, their department's managing director, is a brilliant, suave, and cold-hearted wheeler and dealer who throws Sophie for a loop by bringing her into a major merger of aluminum companies. She forges a genuine connection with one of the deal's main players, AlumiCorp CEO Jake Hutchinson, who worked his way up from the plant floor 23 years prior. The author, who paid her own dues at Lehman Brothers and other firms, clearly knows her way around Wall Street, but, more importantly, can make us care about her characters' successes and failures, against a formidable backdrop rife with competition, backstabbing, and soul-searching. Agent: Amanda Urban, ICM. (Nov.)
Review "The world of high finance provides a thrilling setting for Hemphill’s fine debut." —Publishers Weekly"I read Buying In in one sitting. It sucks you into an adrenaline vortex, obliterating everything but the deal. Work swallows family, friends, and scruples. A gripping and thought-provoking read." —Anne-Marie Slaughter, author of Why Women Still Can’t Have It All, is the Bert G. Kerstetter '66 University Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University and the former Director of Policy Planning, United States Department of State"With assured prose, a compulsively readable plot, and insider savvy, Buying In offers a front-row seat to the downfall of Wall Street, with a terrific young heroine who outmans the men without sacrificing her soul." —Ayelet Waldman, author of Red Hook Road, Love and Other Impossible Pursuits, Bad Mother and Daughter's Keeper"Laura Hemphill writes about Wall Street with the granular knowledge of an industry insider and the incisive empathy of an outsider. Buying In is an absorbing and affecting study of high finance and the toll it takes on one's non-capitalistic identity, with much to say about gender in the workplace, from a bright new literary talent." —Teddy Wayne, author of The Love Song of Jonny Valentine and Kapitoil"Laura Hemphill deftly pulls off a hat trick, offering readers an insider’s clear-eyed take on the subprime lending crisis, a chilling look at the lives of women in banking, and a briskly entertaining coming of age story. You’ll be thinking about her complicated, conflicted heroine, Sophie Landgraf, long after you devour the novel’s final pages." —Joanna Smith Rakoff, author of A Fortunate Age"In Buying In, Laura Hemphill provides us a ringside seat in the inner boardrooms of Manhattan's investment banks in the months just before the financial crash. As her whip-smart, charmingly naïve protagonist Sophie attempts to navigate a deal that will make or break her career (and perhaps decide the future of the bank itself), you can't help but root for her to succeed even as you fear she will. Hemphill effortlessly lays bare the complicated machinations of the banking industry with the breathless pacing of a thriller, and with remarkable assurance describes the very real pull between family and career, success and sacrifice, loyalty and self-preservation. A stunning debut which is sure to catapult the author onto must-read lists." —Allison Amend, author of A Nearly Perfect Copy“Wall Street banker Laura Hemphill took her seven years laboring in the world of finance and spun them into a work of fiction that pulls back the door on life of the privileged elite.” —Pittsburgh Post-Gazette “Sophie’s not just leaning in; she’s buying in.” —BookPage “Former Wall Street financier Laura Hemphill pens a riveting novel about what it takes to make it in the world of finance, particularly as a young woman competing with the boys.” —Metro
About the Author Laura Hemphill graduated from Yale and spent seven years on Wall Street, where she worked at Lehman Brothers, Credit Suisse, and Dune Capital. This is her first novel.
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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful. Insider novel about the 2007 - 2008 bank crisis By Dave Parker The title of the opening chapter gives a strong hint of what's to come - October, 2007. Everyone over the age of 15 remembers the catastrophic sub-prime lending crisis and the big investment banks that failed, leading our country into a severe recession. In Buying In, recent Yale graduate Sophie Landgraf has landed her dream job - an analyst for Sterling, a major investment bank. She is well paid, and she envisions growing rapidly within the company.Sophie is responsible for modeling financial results from investments in order to help mid-level executives broker acquisitions and growth development for their clients. Her first big assignment is developing models for a potential merger between AlumiCorp and any of several other aluminum manufacturers in support of her group leader, Ethan Pearse's meeting with the AlumiCorp CEO.Buying In introduces the reader to the highly competitive, back-stabbing environment of investment banking through the interplay of ideas, secrets, and lies among all the major players. The goal of every senior manager is making deals and scoring fees - the bigger, the better - regardless of the eventual success of the client's acquisition. With multiple low- and mid-level analysts working for the same goal - making their superior look good, Sophie soon learns that this requires long hours, missed appointments, and broken relationships.Buying In starts slowly while building the background of the cultural environment of investment banking challenges and practices. As it progresses, the reader feels their interest growing as Sophie's personal relationship falls apart. The efforts and manipulations to find something - anything - that will close the AlumiCorp deal demonstrate the lack of ethics and even dishonesty pervasive in the banking industry.Buying In is very well written. It includes good details about the challenges of investing profitably. The reader cannot help but be drawn in as one model after another falls short and the AlumiCorp CEO turns them down. But the ending shows Sophie has learned how make it.
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful. Solid read, a little slow to start By Becky Scott It took some time for the real meat of the plot to get going in this book. That said, it was interesting enough to keep me going since this book is set in a world I know pretty much nothing about. I am really glad that the heroine in this novel wasn't sitting around waiting to be rescued by her romantic interest. Sophie is a bit naive (in the beginning) and I'm a little surprised she lasted as long as she did in the cut throat world of Wall Street. She not only survives, but loves her job and the work she does. She realizes that she has to make decisions that are the best for her, not what everyone back home "thinks" is best for her. I like that.The book was solid, interesting, and I enjoyed it. There were some plotlines that stumped me, though. Sophie likes to snoop in people's offices and it just didn't fit the story. It was never really explained to my satisfaction and it seemed like a cheap way to try and reveal (very little) information about some of the other characters. That part could go away and I don't think the novel would suffer much for its loss. The rest could be kept. I liked that the people in the book are flawed without being neurotic to the point of being annoying.I'd be interested to see if the author writes a sequel or at least another book featuring Sophie. And I would check it out to see where Sophie lands next.
11 of 13 people found the following review helpful. A female banking heroine By Barbara Brennan Laura Hemphill nails the investment banking world circa 2007-08. The heroine, Sophie Landgraf, lands a Wall Street analyst job (aka Excel slave) and throws herself into her new career with abandon pulling long nights, weekends and holidays, much to the dismay of her boyfriend and family. Her superior, Vasu, and Managing Director, Ethan, treat her like part of the furniture, never for a moment acknowledging her spreadsheets, expecting her to sacrifice any semblance of a personal life in service of the bank.Hemphill builds the story with a pending merger, giving us a front row seat to the players and the financial battle that must be won at all costs. I spent ten years at a venture capital firm in California so I really enjoyed how Hemphill handled the art of the deal and the toll it takes on everyone's values. The stakes are high. The game must be played. With the subprime crisis looming in the background, Vasu and Ethan are forced to manipulate the only pending merger on the bank's slate. Sophie is caught between their gigantic egos and unreasonable demands, yet she finds a way to connect with their client in a way that Vasu and Ethan would never dream possible.I can never get enough Wall Street thrillers, especially when a young, vulnerable, but highly intelligent woman like Sophie finds her way through the fall out.
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