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Empire of Pain by Patrick Ridden Keefe

Empire of Pain by Patrick Ridden Keefe

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Author:  Patrick Ridden Keefe

Genre:  History, Biography, True Crime

Synopsis:

The highly anticipated portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, by the prize-winning, bestselling author of Say Nothing.

The Sackler name adorns the walls of many storied institutions: Harvard, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Oxford, the Louvre. They are one of the richest families in the world, known for their lavish donations to the arts and sciences. The source of the family fortune was vague, however, until it emerged that the Sacklers were responsible for making and marketing OxyContin, a blockbuster painkiller that was a catalyst for the opioid crisis.

Empire of Pain is a masterpiece of narrative reporting and writing, exhaustively documented and ferociously compelling.

Format: Paperback, 640 Pages

Awards: British Book Award Nominee for Non-Fiction: Narrative (2022), PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction Nominee for Longlist (2022), Financial Times Business Book of the Year Nominee for Shortlist (2021), National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Nonfiction (2021), Andrew Carnegie Medal Nominee for Nonfiction (2022), Goodreads Choice Award for History & Biography (2021), The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction (2021), ALCS Dagger for Non-fiction Nominee (2022)

Goodreads Rating: 4.54

*This book is pre-loved, but has been carefully looked through to ensure it is not missing any pages and is in good condition. All visible flaws have been documented in the product photos.


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