{"product_id":"9781399728287","title":"Generation Desperation : The must-read memoir of trading your way to a million dollars via Robinhood and WallStreetBets by Alexander Hurst","description":"Wealth, poverty, and what it means to live a 'good life': this is the must-read story for fans of The Trading Game and The Psychology of Money.   'A fantastically compelling personal story that is also the story of a generation . . . Told with perfect timing.' - SIMON KUPER 'Searing insights into the challenges of coming of age in the 21st century . . . an instructive tale about a smart young man looking to grow up in the precariousness of our time.'  - BLOOMBERGAS FEATURED IN THE SUNDAY TIMES--------AFTER THE RISE, THERE COMES A FALL.   In 2020, Alexander Hurst was 29 years old and broke, living as a writer in a cramped Paris flatshare. There were murmurs that a global pandemic was coming. Financial stability seemed unattainable, so far removed from his reality - the reality of the generation who came of age during the 2008 financial crisis.   On a whim, he poured his meagre savings into highly risky options trading. Within a year this small set of stocks was worth $1.2 million. Enough to turn his life on its head - but not in the way he had imagined, as he began a slow-motion descent into losing it all.   In exploring Alexander's remarkable rise and fall from wealth, Generation Desperation grapples with the vital questions of our age: what do class and status mean in a late-stage capitalist society? Can everyone really build the life they want? Or is there a cost to pursuing money above everything?Generation Desperation is an urgent, unmissable fable for our times.   ---------'Has an appealing timelessness . . .   Hurst weaves the personal and the generational together with seamless ease in a thrilling book.' - SEB EMINA'A riveting, tender, and painfully timely epic about what really matters.' - ANGELICA FERRARA'Clever and brutally honest.' - LINDSEY TRAMUTA\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56368806461813,"sku":"9781399728287","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781399728287.jpg?v=1763550945","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781399728287","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}