A former owner of a variety of jewellery operations in Texas, Clancy Martin is presently an Associate Professor and Chair of Philosophy at the University of Missouri in Kansas City. He has translated Kierkegaard and Nietzsche, has written several books for Oxford University Press, and has published many essays, reviews, and short stories.
Dirty, greatly original, and very hard to stop reading -- Jonathan Franzen How To Sell is a bleak, funny, unforgiving novel about how we buy and sell everything - merchandise, drugs, sex, trust, power, peace of mind, religion, friendship, and each other. It's written extremely finely, with wit and enviable self-control. A genuinely fresh, disconcerting voice -- Zadie Smith A relentless, clever, sordid novel about what lies at the heart of most transactions - sex and money -- Francesca Segal * Observer * Smart, devious and sad -- Catherine Taylor * Guardian * This book smells like a hit * Vogue *