Julia Navarro. (2016). Story of a Sociopath: A Novel. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

Julia Navarro. 2016. Story of a Sociopath: A Novel. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

Julia Navarro, Story of a Sociopath: A Novel. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2016.

Julia Navarro. Story of a Sociopath: A Novel. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2016.

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   • bioText: Julia Navarro is a journalist, political analyst, and the internationally bestselling author of six novels, including The Brotherhood of the Holy Shroud and The Bible of Clay. Her fiction has been translated into more than thirty languages. She lives in Madrid.
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I’m scum. Yes, I always have been. . . . I know what I did, and what I should have done.
 
A spellbinding and provocative psychological thriller that shows just how far a man will go to win the most enduring and ruthless of games: the game of power.  
 
Raised in the upper echelons of elite New York society, Thomas Spencer has never wanted for much. But much is hardly enough for a man whose greatest satisfaction lies in shattering the happiness of others. Thomas, the black sheep of his family, harbors only resentment toward those closest to him for what they have more of: good looks, good cheer, good social graces. But what Thomas may lack in charm, he makes up for in cunning. And it is this that will serve him best when he trades in his glittering world of privilege for a chance to claw his way to the top—on his own terms, and at any cost. As Thomas achieves fame and success as an ad man, he becomes ever more deeply entrenched in an insidious underworld of media, politics, and women, and an astonishing picture emerges of a complex, destructive personality who will stop at nothing to get what he wants. Shameless and electrifying, Story of a Sociopath illuminates the true nature of power through the mind of a master psychological manipulator.

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   • source: La Vanguardia (Barcelona)
   • content: "Julia Navarro is one of the finest authors in Spanish literature."
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   • source: El Correo (Bilbao)
   • content: "Dissects the ambition, greed, and selfishness of human beings."
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   • source: La Razón (Madrid)
   • content: "[Navarro] aims high. Perhaps that's why she launched her book amongst skyscrapers. Story of Sociopath is more than a change of register--it's a dissection of evil."
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   • source: El Pueblo Vasco (Vizcaya)
   • content: "[Navarro] dances through this narrative."
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   • source: ABC (Madrid)
   • content: "Like great historians-turned-writers, this bestselling Spanish-language dame does not wince when it comes to surprising the reader."
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   • source: El Mundo (Madrid)
   • content: "Julia Navarro takes a turn to the dark side [in] a novel revolving around the psychology of its characters."
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     September 5, 2016
     As thick as the DSM, Navarro’s (The Brotherhood of the Holy Shroud) latest is a loose, baggy monster about a particularly monstrous character. The titular sociopath is Thomas Spencer, born “without a conscience” to a New York family whom he terrorizes from an early age. His youthful exploits—scheming to break up his parents, flirting with murdering his brother—lay the groundwork for a lifetime of sometimes motiveless, sometimes motivated malignity. Thomas ascends in the world of advertizing, public relations, and political campaigning through a series of repetitive episodes usually involving blackmail, coercion, and various flat characters hissing, snarling, and scoffing at one another (“How dare you,” almost everyone in Thomas’s orbit eventually asks him). Too many scenes drag on, and further weighing down the novel are numerous, and pointless, sections detailing how Thomas could have acted were he not a self-avowed sociopath. Malevolent characters can of course be wickedly fun, as demonstrated by the narrators of novels such as John Lanchester’s The Debt to Pleasure or Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita, but those morally challenged gentlemen delighted readers with their fancy prose styles. Here, by contrast, is Thomas describing a sexual encounter: “It was a voyage of discovery into sensations I did not know existed.” Navarro’s is an earnest large-scale portrait, but the subject deserves better; after all, sociopaths are people too.

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     September 15, 2016
     Bestselling Spanish author Navarro (Shoot, I'm Already Dead, 2013, etc.) details the life choices of an unpleasant character in this aptly titled novel.Thomas Spencer reflects on his past because he knows he's dying. "Tonight I am overwhelmed by memories of my life, and they all leave the taste of bile in my mouth." "As I look death in the face, I'll go over what I have lived through. I know what I did, and what I should have done." As a child of privilege growing up in New York City, he torments his nanny and frames his teacher. He tries to kill his little brother by pushing him out the window, then to separate his parents by convincing his father his mother is having an affair (she isn't). Later, he becomes an adman and moves on to blackmail, affairs, domestic violence, political machinations. He describes himself as "scum," "a scorpion." Other characters call him "a miserable bastard...a son of a bitch," "a man with no principles." When his mother dies of cancer: "I searched within myself for some emotion, but I couldn't feel a thing." He imagines the way each pivotal scene would have gone if he'd acted differently, but: "I wasn't struck with remorse for a single moment." This goes on for more than 800 pages, and the writing often feels banal. Of sex with a "high-end" prostitute he later drives to suicide: "It was a voyage of discovery into sensations I did not know existed." Of the differences between New York and London: "New Yorkers are more communicative and less formal than the British." There are dark plot twists, but the central question remains the same. "I can't stop asking myself if this life would have been better, the one I didn't want to live because I preferred to be a son of a bitch....But I never wanted to be anything other than what I am." Bullying narcissists make poor company, and the refusal to allow this one to learn anything is a risky authorial move.

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A spellbinding and provocative psychological thriller that shows just how far a man will go to win the most enduring and ruthless of games: the game of power.  
 
Raised in the upper echelons of elite New York society, Thomas Spencer has never wanted for much. But much is hardly enough for a man whose greatest satisfaction lies in shattering the happiness of others. Thomas, the black sheep of his family, harbors only resentment toward those closest to him for what they have more of: good looks, good cheer, good social graces. But what Thomas may lack in charm, he makes up for in cunning. And it is this that will serve him best when he trades in his glittering world of privilege for a chance to claw his way to the top—on his own terms, and at any cost. As Thomas achieves fame and success as an ad man, he becomes ever more deeply...

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