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A MAN OF MEANS by Jacques Nola

A MAN OF MEANS

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Pub Date: May 25th, 1948
Publisher: Ziff-Davis

Skillful and penetrating study of Villiers-Bernard- done in a series of fl backs of a life devoted to the pursuit of wealth. Stunned by losing more money than in the crash of the French market just before the war, Villiers-Bernard his childhood and youth, early loves and mistresses, his business career, his holl his wife and her faithlessness- and in conclusion he realizes that even when he rich he was poor -- and that his neighbors are leading an equally futile existence. lease out of a window just a little too far- and takes the only way out...Specialized market for the disenchanted young intellectual. Winner Prix Interallie.