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In his debut novel, hedge fund pioneer Jerrold Fine delivers a fascinating insider’s look at the perks and pitfalls of a high-stakes life in the world of financial markets
Make Me Even and I’ll Never Gamble Again
A Novel
Rogers Stout has the gambler’s gifts—a titanic brain, an uncanny ability to read people, and a risk-taker’s daring. An intriguing look at human aspiration and the interplay of honor, greed, fear, and individuality, Make Me Even and I’ll Never Gamble Again: A Novel reveals a time when a new generation upended the status quo on Wall Street and forever changed investing. Drawing from his own experiences in the turbulent ‘70s and ‘80s, Jerrold Fine weaves an engrossing story of a young man fiercely intent on achieving independence in the precarious canyons of Wall Street, with a heartfelt exploration of the joy and challenges of new love. Learn more…
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“A rip-roaring yarn of baseball, poker, and Wall Street told with humor and humanity.”
“I bet you won’t be able to put down this book. By turns hilarious, insightful, and touching, Fine has written a coming-of-age story for the ages.”
Author Jerrold Fine
A hedge fund industry pioneer, Jerrold Fine at age 24 started one of the first hedge funds in 1967, along with two Wharton colleagues. Nine years later he founded a private investment firm and managed it, while surviving and thriving during a multitude of market shifts before converting it into a family office in 2014. When the character Rogers Stout entered his consciousness and refused to leave, he launched his career as a novelist. A graduate of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, he has served multiple terms on its Undergraduate Executive Board and Board of Overseers. Running his family’s investments, Jerry has conveniently forgotten his baseball batting averages but still relishes memories of winning poker hands. He lives in Connecticut with his artist wife and a ridiculously spoiled Portuguese water dog. Learn more…
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Kirkus Reviews
This debut novel follows a young man who, hoping to achieve financial independence, finds himself drawn to the stock market. By the early 1970s, Rogers Stout is only 16 years old, but his father, Dr. Charles Stout, wants his son to live up to his potential. The Ohio teen is bright but putting minimal effort into high school studies. This changes the summer before his senior year with an internship at Prescott & Prescott, a stock brokerage and investment banking firm. Read more…
Lodging Magazine
Conrad New York and Bedside Reading will launch their new partnership to provide guests with access to critically acclaimed literature in every room. Bedside Reading, the only program to place complimentary best-sellers at the bedside of luxury hotels across the United States, is introducing the Beside Reading program to Conrad New York as the first business-focused hotel to provide both business and leisure travelers with a way to unplug and enrich their minds while traveling. The launch will feature two books. The first, Make Me Even and I’ll Never Gamble Again: A Novel by Jerrold Fine. Drawing from the hedge fund pioneer’s own experiences in the turbulent ‘70s and ‘80s and is a heartfelt story of a young man fiercely intent on achieving independence with a fascinating insider’s look at the perks and pitfalls of a high-stakes life in the world of financial markets. Read more…
Sky Magazine (Delta)
Hot List, August 2018: Hotel Perks / Bedside Reading. Unplugging is easy with this program that lets guests at the Mandarin Oriental New York and other luxury hotels enjoy (and take home) the latest bestsellers for free. Read more…
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Business Books to Watch in August: Rogers Stout has the gambler’s gifts—a titanic brain, an uncanny ability to read people, and a risk-taker’s daring. As an apathetic high school student who loves baseball but lacks a 90-mph fastball, he knows that the game does not begin until the ball leaves the pitcher’s hand. But his life needs direction. Read more…