TY - BOOK AU - Haslett,Adam ED - Random House TI - Union Atlantic: a novel SN - 9780307388292 AV - PS3608.A85 PY - 2011/// CY - New York PB - Anchor Books, a Division of Random House, Inc. KW - Bankers KW - Fiction KW - High school students KW - House construction KW - Older women KW - Social classes KW - Massachusetts KW - Class of Fall 2011 KW - Mary Ellen von der Heyden Fellow in Fiction KW - Fellow N2 - At the heart of this novel lies a test of wills between a young banker, Doug Fanning, and a retired schoolteacher, Charlotte Graves, whose two dogs have begun to speak to her. When Doug builds an ostentatious mansion on land that Charlotte's grandfather donated to the town of Finden, Massachusetts, she determines to oust him in court. As a senior manager of Union Atlantic bank, a major financial conglomerate, Doug is embroiled in the company's struggle to remain afloat. It is Charlotte's brother, Henry Graves, the president of the New York Federal Reserve, who must keep a watchful eye on Union Atlantic and the entire financial system. Drawn into Doug and Charlotte's intensifying conflict is Nate Fuller, a troubled high-school senior who unwittingly stirs powerful emotions in each of them ER -