This Is How It Really Sounds: A Novel [Paperback]

A smart, wide-ranging novel . . . a timely and provocative story about money, cultural power, and identity in the digital age. Tom Perrotta, author ofThe Leftovers

In the lurid nightclubs of modern Shanghai, infamous expat financier Peter Harrington is suddenly confronted by his past. Investors he has ruined, looming federal investigations, and a remote but alluring woman all converge on one hallucinatory night that ends in the labyrinth of an ancient Chinese garden. On the other side of the ocean, chasing the last vapors and diminishing sexual returns of fame in Los Angeles, faded rock star Pete Harrington is bankrupt. With no band, no hits, and no money, he finds a last flash of brilliance that sets him on an absurd and epic quest for revenge. And in a small town in Alaska, legendary extreme skier Harry Harrington lives far from the fame that had courted himbut still yearns for one more dangerous run on a remote, unconquered slope.

Stuart Archer Cohen'sThis Is How It Really Soundsexplores the seductive power of the Other Lifethe life you once lived or still dream of livingand what happens when you finally grasp it.

STUART ARCHER COHEN lives in Juneau, Alaska with his wife and two children. Two of his novels,Invisible Worldand17 Stone Angels, have been translated into ten languages; a third,The Army of the Republic, has been optioned for film by Oliver Stone. Cohen has traveled extensively, and owns an international textile company called Invisible World, which trades wool, silk, alpaca and cashmere from China and South America.

This is How it Really Soundsis a smart, wide-ranging novel about three guys with the same name--a once-famous skier, a washed-up rock star and a disgraced financier--whose lives intersect in a viral video. Stuart Archer Cohen has written a timely and provocative story about money, cultural power, and identity in the digital age. Tom Perrotta, author ofl#