The Wolf of Wall Street (Movie Tie-in Edition)

ISBN: 0345549333

Author: Belfort, Jordan

Condition: New

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Now a major motion picture directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprioBy day he made thousands of dollars a minute. By night he spent it as fast as he could. From the binge that sank a 170-foot motor yacht and ran up a $700,000 hotel tab, to the wife and kids waiting at home and the fast-talking, hard-partying young stockbrokers who called him king, here, in Jordan Belforts own words, is the story of the ill-fated genius they called the Wolf of Wall Street. In the 1990s, Belfort became one of the most infamous kingpins in American finance: a brilliant, conniving stock-chopper who led his merry mob on a wild ride out of Wall Street and into a massive office on Long Island. Its an extraordinary story of greed, power, and excess that no one could invent: the tale of an ordinary guy who went from hustling Italian ices to making hundreds of millions-until it all came crashing down.Praise for The Wolf of Wall StreetRaw and frequently hilarious.-The New York TimesA rollicking tale of [Jordan Belforts] rise to riches as head of the infamous boiler room Stratton Oakmont . . . proof that there are indeed second acts in American lives.-ForbesA cross between Tom Wolfes The Bonfire of the Vanities and Scorseses GoodFellas . . . Belfort has the Midas touch.-The Sunday Times (London)Entertaining as pulp fiction, real as a federal indictment . . . a hell of a read.-Kirkus Reviews