DRIVEN

by Max Barnet, Hugh Aaron

Overview

This novel shows the reader in real-time how things happen in business. It covers twenty years in the life of a CEO. Driving from moment to moment, propelling the protagonist forward, the story puts the reader in the CEO’s skin. Business crises pile on as quickly as solutions are found. Personal crises occur, and many remain unresolved.

Loaded with business savvy, the novel is an emotionally honest account of the price a CEO pays for success. The story ends with the CEO's retirement in which he questions whether he has done the right thing and whether he has missed out in much due to his passionate devotion to his business.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940014909419
Publisher:	Stones Point Books
Publication date:	08/16/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	401
File size:	269 KB

About the Author

Born in Worcester, Massachusetts, Hugh Aaron (Max Barnet) was educated in the Worcester Public Schools, and received a Liberal Arts degree in the Humanities at The University of Chicago. He served three years in the Seabees during World War II, two of them in the Southwest Pacific. He has three children, now self-sufficient adults. He was CEO of his own plastics manufacturing business for 20 years before selling it to write full time. Several of his short stories have been published in national magazines and 18 essays on business management and one on WWII appeared in The Wall Street Journal.

Thus far he has written two novels, two screenplays, seventeen stageplays, two short story collections, a WWI letter collection, a travel journal, three children’s stories, five novellas and a book (Business Not As Usual) on business management. He lives with his artist wife in mid-coast Maine.

Editorial Reviews

Max Barnet's crackling novel DRIVEN is damn near Shakespearean in its drama, psychology, and insight. From paragons to parasites, from gifted people to those as flaky as a barrel of dandruff, Barnet's characters forge a convincing impression that running a business can be frivolous to some, yet an almost religious experience to others. And there are times when one should just throw a tent over the enterprise and charge admission.

Maine Writers & Publishers Msagazine - Ramon De Rosas