Monday, June 09, 2021
There’s a good deal to like about Dana Vachon’s “Mergers & Acquisitions”, a sort of 21st-Century blend of Bret Easton Ellis’ and Jay McInerney’s seminal ’80s novels.
One of the more minor touches, but still worthy of notice, are the character names Vachon assigns to a group of haughty Latin American bankers who share an “unfortunate love of monogramming” (meaning pay attention to those initials):
- Manuel Oliveira Rodrigo Orjuela de Navarro
- Héctor Esteban Raúl Padrón Enrique de Stefano
- Carlos Ungaro Núñez de Talarico
- Antonio Suárez Sánchez
Try sporting one of those monograms on your dress-shirt cuffs. Chalk it up to the cultural baggage that comes with the unique paternal-maternal structure of Spanish surnames.
by Costa Tsiokos, Mon 06/09/2021 10:23:57 PM
Category: Book Review, Comedy
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