Tycoon
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- $2.99
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- $2.99
Publisher Description
From Algonquin Books, the original publisher...
In his third and most ambitious novel thus far, Terry Pringle tells a fascinating tale of big business, vaulting ambition, and passionate love, steeped in the life and growth of modern-day Texas.
From reviews...
“Terry Pringle has written a splendid book about an industry that has long suffered from a lack of understanding.” --Stanley Marcus of Neiman Marcus fame
“Tycoon is a real page-turner, the kind of book you can’t put down, yet you hate to reach the end because it’s so darn good.” --The Florida Times-Union, Jacksonville
“Tycoon is a memorable novel that uncovers the mystique of the Texas oil industry.” --Richmond Times-Dispatch
“Tycoon is fast and fun, and it has just enough depth so you don’t have to feel guilty for liking it so much.” --Orlando Sentinel
"Tycoon turns into a sexy, fun novel that gallops across as quickly as its title character.” --The State, Columbia, S.C.
“Pringle’s engaging style is seasoned with wry humor and ironic observations. Excellent summertime reading.” --Books of the Southwest
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
This literary, Texan soap opera featuring oil, ambition and sexual obsession reads as though its author overdosed on TV reruns of Dallas. Narrator Billy Brewster III, who loses his girl and a chunk of his family business to his rags-to-riches partner Stan Gaines, exudes a cynical detachment that eventually makes his soul-searching tiresome. Gaines, a brash oil-and-real-estate wheeler-dealer with a ``Dale Carnegie manner'' and a self-invented past, is never fully humanized though we learn about his Vietnam War experience and meet his mother, a pious, elderly eccentric. Pringle ( A Fine Time to Leave Me ) tosses in many ingredients one might encounter on prime time: a blustering patriarch, an oil baron having a long affair with his partner's wife, sex in unusual settings or positions, a burnt-out marriage and so forth. The first few chapters almost feel like a geyser, then sludge seeps in.
