The Hunger of the Wolf
A Novel
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December 22, 2014
The nature of family bonds and wealth are at the heart of this spellbinding tale from Marche (Love and the Mess We’re In). Jamie Cabot grew up in isolated northern Alberta, Canada, where his parents work for the elusive and enigmatic Wylie family, one of the richest business dynasties in the world. When Ben Wylie, an extremely wealthy man, is found naked and dead in the frigid Alberta snow, Jamie’s curiosity spikes, and he becomes determined to uncover the secret behind the Wylie family. From the Canadian hinterlands to New York City society life, Jamie seeks contact with the Wylies. Despite the novel’s account of their dramatic accumulation of a peerless fortune, the Wylies remain mysterious—not only to Jamie and to the public, but also to one another. No word is out of place in this taut multigenerational tale, which takes some enjoyable supernatural turns—readers will be just as driven as Jamie to discover the mystery at the heart of the Wylie’s legacy. Agent: P.J. Mark, Janklow & Nesbit.
January 1, 2015
Marche's latest (Shining at the Bottom of the Sea) tells an epic, Gatsby-esque tale of a financial dynasty and adds a touch of the supernatural, with uneven results. When Ben Wylie, the heir to a multibillion-dollar empire, is found lying dead in the Canadian snow, Jamie Cabot, a writer with childhood ties to the Wylies, tries to uncover the truth. He traces the history of WylieCorp, beginning with Dale, whose business of buying up radio stations and newspapers during the height of the Great Depression laid the groundwork for his son George, who took the company international. The story of the self-made Wylies would seem to be a triumph of ambitious capitalism, but they harbor a dangerous secret: for three days a month, the Wylie men cage themselves in the basement where they turn into werewolves, howling themselves into exhaustion. The revelation of how Ben died is the glum culmination to a family saga devoid of nearly any joy. VERDICT As one would expect from the author of Esquire's monthly column A Thousand Words About Our Culture, Marche's observations on the growing hollowness of the moneyed class are trenchant and timely, but the strained metaphor of capitalists-as-wild-beasts feels out of place. An immaculately written but unsatisfying effort.--Michael Pucci, South Orange P.L., NJ
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