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Adam et Cynthia ont tout pour eux. Mariés à la sortie de la fac, ils forment un couple parfait auquel rien ne résiste. Deux magnifiques enfants et une brillante carrière dans la finance plus tard, leur beauté, leur provocante jeunesse et leur insolente réussite sont toujours inaltérées. Le monde autour n’existe pas, ou bien par le frisson du danger qu’il procure, mais leur noyau demeure, irréductible et indestructible, telle une forteresse dorée. Au coeur de cette famille, le roman dépeint son paradoxe: une intimité de papier glacé, des êtres humains prisonniers de la machine à succès qu’ils ont créée, et les effets décadents de leurs irrésistibles appétits. Portrait d’une famille américaine étourdie de désir, d’argent et de beauté, Les Privilèges, bûcher des vanités du 21e siècle, brosse le tableau remarquablement subtil et cynique d’une nouvelle classe sociale, les ultra-riches, et pose sur l’Amérique post-11 Septembre un regard qui interroge, observe et fait saillir l’absurde, le vice ou la déshérence de personnages en fuite.

Smart, socially gifted, and chronically impatient, Adam and Cynthia Morey are so perfect for each other that united they become a kind of fortress against the world. In their hurry to start a new life, they marry young and have two children before Cynthia reaches the age of twenty-five. Adam is a rising star in the world of private equity and becomes his boss's protégé. With a beautiful home in the upper-class precincts of Manhattan, gorgeous children, and plenty of money, they are, by any reasonable standard, successful.

But the Moreys' standards are not the same as other people's. The future in which they have always believed for themselves and their children—a life of almost boundless privilege, in which any desire can be acted upon and any ambition made real—is still out there, but it is not arriving fast enough to suit them. As Cynthia, at home with the kids day after identical day, begins to drift, Adam is confronted with a choice that will test how much he is willing to risk to ensure his family's happiness and to recapture the sense that the only acceptable life is one of infinite possibility.

The Privileges is an odyssey of a couple touched by fortune, changed by time, and guided above all else by their epic love for each other. Lyrical, provocative, and brilliantly imagined, this is a timely meditation on wealth, family, and what it means to leave the world richer than you found it.

Smart and socially gifted, Adam and Cynthia Morey are perfect for each other. With Adam’s rising career in the world of private equity, a beautiful home in Manhattan, gorgeous children, and plenty of money, they are, by any reasonable standard, successful. But for the Moreys, their future of boundless privilege is not arriving fast enough. As Cynthia begins to drift, Adam is confronted with a choice that will test how much he is willing to risk to ensure his family’s happiness and to recapture the sense that the only acceptable life is one of infinite possibility. The Privileges is an odyssey of a couple touched by fortune, changed by time, and guided above all else by their epic love for each other.