5/28/2023 0 Comments The big picture by douglas kennedyStay small, be your own man, don’t waste your life like your parents. Dreaming of not being in the grinder, of making one’s own hours as an artist or something else, of not being just another suit on the commute. It is just the thing to appeal to careerists who have dreamed of being something else at some point. When it came out in 1997, this novel was very heavily marketed and hyped. But will his new life be any better? Can he ever stop running from his past? And on another note: Can a life with a yearly $300k+ paycheck feel like a prison? Of course it can. Ben manages to get away with the murder and escape his old life. In a heated moment, he accidentally kills his wife’s lover, a loser amateur photographer. Now his wife is sleeping around and his marriage is obviously on the rocks. He still maintains photography as a hobby. He wanted to become a photographer, but through a combination of societal inertia and parental pressure, he ended up “doing the right thing” and becoming a lawyer. Wife, two kids, house in upscale soutwestern Connecticut suburbia, big paycheck. Ben Bradford is your typical Wall Street lawyer.
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