The Wolf of Wall Street 608 p. ISBN 978-2-35341-061-3 Translated from the American by Lucie Delplanque and Erne Percibal ‘I know it was wrong. And I know it was insane. Yes, today I know that midget-tossing is wrong and that rock 'n rolling with four hookers is wrong and that manipulating stocks is wrong.’ In this tell-all autobiogaphy, Jordan Belfort opens us the doors to the world’s biggest stock market temple; there we discover dubious intrigues, outrageous secrets and unbelievable swindles going on behind the scenes. Who better than him could relate them? Not so long ago, he was notoriously known as The Wolf of Wall Street in all business circles. How did he become one of the richest men of New York City? And how, after a life of ‘unbridled hedonism’, was he arrested by the FBI? With an astounding sense of narration and rhythm, the former stock market multimillionaire tells his tragi-comic success story: from a timid start as a trader to heights of insolent wealth, decadent parties, psychotropic cocktails and a vertiginous fall, he really led the life of a rockstar. To be sure, the autobiography of the financial world’s craziest shark will go down in history. Not only is it genuinely insane, but it also constitutes the death announcement of the stock market’s most exuberant years. Unless it all starts up again tomorrow? Soon to be adapted for film by Martin Scorsese, starring Leonardo Di Caprio. ‘Jordan Belfort seems a character taken right from a Bret Easton Ellis novel.' L’Express ‘Cheerfully outspoken and often hilarious.’ The New York Times Feuilleter
