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Eric Packer is a twenty-eight-year-old multi-billionaire asset manager. We join him on what will become a particularly eventful April day in turn-of-the-twenty-first-century Manhattan. He's on a personal odyssey, to get a haircut. Sitting in his stretch limousine as it moves across town, he...

Aprile 2000. Mattina. Sull'East River. Il giovane miliardario Eric Packer esce dal suo lussuoso attico a tre piani e sale sulla limousine bianca per andare a tagliarsi i capelli a Hell's Kitchen. È l'inizio di un viaggio lungo un giorno che lo porterà ad attraversare Manhattan per andare incontro al proprio destino. Durante il tragitto Packer, ossessionato da una folle scommessa finanziaria contro lo yen e da un'oscura "minaccia attendibile" alla propria incolumità, incontra gli uomini e le donne della sua vita sullo sfondo di scenari erotici, o tragici, o enigmatici.

From the bestselling author of White Noise comes a riveting exploration on wealth as a man's life gradually falls to pieces over the course of one day—now a major motion picture directed by David Cronenberg and starring Robert Pattinson. It is an April day in the year 2000 and an era is about...

Jacqueline Wilson Raised Us is the podcast for anyone who stayed up way past bedtime reading Double Act under the covers, sprinted home after school to catch The Story of Tracy Beaker, and traded dog-eared copies of The Girls series like they were gold in the playground. Basically, if Jacqueline Wilson was your childhood fairy godmother, then you're in the right place. Jacqueline Wilson Raised Us is a collaboration between Penguin Books and Cosmopolitan UK. To pre-order Jacqueline Wilson’s new novel Picture Imperfect head here. And to enter the ‘Jacqueline Wilson Raised Me’ cap...