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Generation Desperation

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  • Paperback
  • Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
  • 15.2 x 23.2 x 2.8 cm

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'Somewhere in the multiverse, innumerable possibilities are collapsing into infinite different realities. Am I happier in any of them? I still don't know. The answer to that question is just one more thing that $1.2 million could never buy.'

In 2020, Alexander Hurst was 29 years old and broke, living as a writer in a cramped Paris flat-share. 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.

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  • Title

    Generation Desperation

  • Author

    Alexander Hurst

  • Book Format

    Paperback / softback

  • Publisher

    Hodder & Stoughton

  • Published

    January 2026

  • Weight

    329g

  • Dimensions

    15.2 x 23.2 x 2.8 cm

  • ISBN

    9781399728294

  • ISBN-10

    1399728296

  • Eden Code

    7047106

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