Pacific Rift

by Michael Lewis

2021-01-09 17:42:03

In Pacific Rift, the best-selling author of Liar's Poker aims his skewering wit at the so-called cultural clash between Japan and the United States. The result is a very different kind of book on U.S.-Japanese business relations. In search of answers... Read more
In Pacific Rift, the best-selling author of Liar's Poker aims his skewering wit at the so-called cultural clash between Japan and the United States. The result is a very different kind of book on U.S.-Japanese business relations. In search of answers, Michael Lewis hits the road to report on the travails of two businessmen: one a rollicking American insurance agent who works in Tokyo, the other a Harvard-educated Japanese man employed by Mitsui Real Estate in New York City. From the Ginza hostess bars of Tokyo to the "wine-bottle" gangs of Times Square, Lewis dramatizes tragicomic collisions between the two cultures and the basic misconceptions that Americans and Japanese have about each other. Less

Book Details

File size8.28 X 5.51 X 0.37 in
Print pages128
PublisherW W Norton
Publication date June 1, 1993
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780393309867
Michael Lewis (born October 15, 1960) is an American financial journalist and author of many New York Times bestselling books on various subjects. His most recent work is The Premonition: A Pandemic S...

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