Bang! You're Dead - Hardcover

Pey, Tom

 
9780471496922: Bang! You're Dead
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0471496928 ISBN 13: 9780471496922
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons, 2001

Inhaltsangabe

1961 - im ländlichen Irland: Zwei Jungen spielen Cowboy und Indianer. Tom ist wagemutig und klettert auf ein Dach: "Bang You're Dead!" ruft sein Freund. Daraufhin fällt Tom zu Boden und verletzt sich am Kopf.
Toms Wagemut und Entschlossenheit begleiten ihn auch in seinem Berufsleben. Er sitzt im Vorstand internationaler Unternehmen und verdient eine Menge Geld. Die 80er waren bemerkenswert fette Börsenjahre; immense Geldsummen wurden gewonnen oder auch verloren. Tom gehörte als Seniorpartner einer Londoner Investmentbank zu den Spitzengewinnern, und er machte eine schnelle und spektakuläre Karriere in England und in Übersee. Doch in den 90ern eröffnete man ihm in einem Krankenhaus in Baltimore, dass er als Folge des Unfalls in seiner Kindheit bald sein Augenlicht verlieren werde. Für Tom brach eine Welt zusammen; schon bald verlor er seinen Job und sein Vermögen. Er fiel in ein tiefe Depression und betäubte sich mit Alkohol und anderen Drogen. Doch nachdem Tom den absoluten Tiefpunkt erreicht hatte, siegte seine Entschlossenheit erneut. Er ging zurück an die Universität, studierte Musik und Literatur und baute sich eine neue Identität auf. Dadurch fand er zurück zu einem aktiven Leben, in dem er die während seiner Finanzkarriere erworbenen Fähigkeiten in den Dienst seiner Mitmenschen stellen konnte.
Diese Geschichte erzählt von Toms Kampf für den Sieg, von seiner Reise aus dem ländlichen Irland in die internationale Finanzwelt, von seinen ehrgeizigen Zielen, die ihn dort hinführten und von seinem Kampf gegen die Depression und für ein neues Leben, in dem er seine außergewöhnlichen Fähigkeiten zum Wohl seiner Mitmenschen einsetzen konnte. Ganz nebenbei erzählt die Geschichte auch von berauschenden Erfolgen an dem Aktienmärkten, dem Crash und einer neuen Investmentära.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

TOM PEY was born in 1953 in the small town of Birr in the heartlands of Southern Ireland. Here he learnt to be a good Catholic, played cowboys and dreamed of going to America.
 
When he grew up Tom determined to pursue a career in business. Using his own talent and the wisdom gained working in his parents' corner shop, he rose at a very young age to senior positions in a succession of international companies-a route that soon led him to New York. In his mid-30s, spurred on by the constant desire for new challenges, he became a senior partner in a successful London-based financial consultancy practice, through which he held leading positions on the boards of a large number of client companies.
 
Tom lost his sight in 1991, as a result of a long-forgotten childhood accident. Following a period of rehabilitation, he took an MA in novel writing at the University of Manchester. Today, Tom is policy director for the Guide Dogs for the Blind Association, the world's largest providers of guide dogs for visually impaired people. Through the guide dogs Tom is able to channel his talent and enthusiasm, not simply into making money as previously, but into something that he considers far more worthwhile-into making a difference to the lives of other people. Tom lives in London.

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Bang! You're dead is a story about a man who, as a result of a childhood accident, was struck blind at the age of thirty-eight and robbed of everything that he had fought so hard all his life to achieve.
 
'The bottom line?' the doctor asked.
'Yes.'
'There's nothing we can do.'
 
Those words plunged Tom, formerly a highly successful businessman, into a nightmare world in which he lost his job, his money and his self-esteem. Yet, eventually, Tom's inner strength wins through and, drawing on the homespun wisdom of his blind Aunt Lil and other memories from his childhood in rural Ireland, he is able to build a new and more meaningful life for himself and his family.
 
Bang! You're dead is an inspiring tale of triumph over adversity that follows Tom's early commercial success, the agony of his struggle against fate and his overwhelming enthusiasm for the new challenges that the future will bring. Bang! You're dead is a tale of laughter, tears, joy and hope.

Aus dem Klappentext

The time is the early 1960s, London is swinging, Beatniks are on the streets and The Beatles are in the charts, but in rural Ireland little has changed. Two small boys, Tom and Jimmy are playing cowboys. 'Bang! You're dead' says Jimmy and, though neither of them could realize it then, a time would come when Tom wished he had died there.
 
The 1980s were a time of conspicuous consumption; champagne flowed, cars were fast and bright young men could make a lot of money. Tom was amongst the brightest-his yearning for new challenges had led him from rural Ireland to New York and London and to become a senior partner in an investment bank. Yet as the 1980s moved into the 1990s Tom found himself in a hospital in Baltimore learning that he was shortly to become blind as a result of that childhood game.
 
Stricken by depression and disbelief Tom struggled to come to terms with the one-in-a million accident that would rob him of everything that he had fought to achieve. Yet, drawing on his inner resources Tom was eventually able to build a new life for himself-a life in which he discovered the true satisfaction and peace of mind that he had so ardently pursued through other routes.

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Verlag
John Wiley & Sons
Erscheinungsdatum
2001
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0471496928
ISBN 13 
9780471496922
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
220
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