{"product_id":"generation-desperation","title":"Generation Desperation","description":"Condition: BRAND NEW\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781399728294\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Trade paperback (UK)\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2026\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Hodder \u0026amp; Stoughton\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDescription:\u003cbr\u003e'\u003ci\u003eSomewhere 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.\u003c\/i\u003e'\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOn 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn exploring Alexander's remarkable rise and fall from wealth, \u003ci\u003eGeneration Desperation\u003c\/i\u003e 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?\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eGeneration Desperation \u003c\/i\u003eis an urgent, unmissable fable for our times.","brand":"ALLIANCE DIST - SF","offers":[{"title":"Default","offer_id":41860213833861,"sku":"PR434963","price":43.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0213\/3637\/files\/image_TTGBO9PG34F0.jpg?v=1789119105","url":"https:\/\/smartfoxbooks.com.au\/products\/generation-desperation","provider":"Smartfox Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}