Generation Desperation How I Made -- and Lost -- a Million Dollars - Alex Hurst - 9781399728294

SKU: 9781399728294
Title: Generation Desperation How I Made -- and Lost -- a Million Dollars
Author: Alex Hurst
Description: In 2020, Alexander was a 29-year-old American writer with no money, living in a cramped Paris flat-share. With the future of everything seeming deeply uncertain, he decided to do what so many millennials were doing: 'YOLO' his meagre savings into highly risky options trading. What followed was an eighteen month long psychological roller coaster. In a stunning display of unbelievable folly, Alexander had turned a small loan into $1.2 million and lost it all - but in its place, had gained a good story to tell.



In a book that's part-memoir, part-exploration of late capitalism, Hurst grapples with the vital questions of our age: how do you build a life when you're blocked from the means to do so? Are we still bound by class and social status, or has the internet freed us? Is it worth becoming a monstrous narcissist in the pursuit of wealth?
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Pages: 320
Language: en
Subject: Biography & Autobiography, Memoirs
Date: 2026-01-29