01763cam a2200313 4500 382721084 TxAuBib 20190524120000.0 090323s2009||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2009011875 9780385524476 alk. paper 0385524471 alk. paper (OCoLC)317361763 TxAuBib Haslett, Adam. Union Atlantic [BOOK] : a novel / Adam Haslett. 1st ed. New York : Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2009. 304 p. ; 25 cm. At the heart of this novel lies a test of wills between a young banker, Doug Fanning, and a retired schoolteacher, Charlotte Graves, whose two dogs have begun to speak to her. When Doug builds an ostentatious mansion on land that Charlotte's grandfather donated to the town of Finden, Massachusetts, she determines to oust him in court. As a senior manager of Union Atlantic bank, a major financial conglomerate, Doug is embroiled in the company's struggle to remain afloat. It is Charlotte's brother, Henry Graves, the president of the New York Federal Reserve, who must keep a watchful eye on Union Atlantic and the entire financial system. Drawn into Doug and Charlotte's intensifying conflict is Nate Fuller, a troubled high-school senior who unwittingly stirs powerful emotions in each of them. 20190524. Bankers fiction. Older women Fiction. High school students Fiction. House construction Fiction. Social classes fiction. American fiction 21st century. Massachusetts Fiction.