The Pursuit of Happyness by Chris Gardner Narrated by Andre Blake...
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What a shit book! Stick to the movie, don't bother with this book
This book is everything that is wrong with America. I expected the movie based book to be better than the movie but this is just a disappointment.
Zero humbelness, full of ego and what a terrible piece of book.
I hope Chris Gardner lied in this book because if he didn't it's even worse.
The Pursuit of Happyness
By
Chris Gardner
Narrated by
Andre Blake
Release date
05-23-06
Language
English
Format
Abridged Audiobook
Length
5 hrs and 42 mins
Publisher
Amistad
Categories
Biographies & Memoirs
The astounding yet true rags-to-riches saga of a homeless father who raised and cared for his son on the mean streets of San Francisco and went on to become a crown prince of Wall Street.
At the age of twenty, Chris Gardner arrived in San Francisco to pursue a promising career in medicine. However, he surprised everyone and himself by setting his sights on the competitive world of high finance. Yet no sooner had he landed an entry level position at a prestigious firm, Gardner found himself caught in a web of incredibly challenging circumstances that left him part of the city's working homeless with his toddler son. Motivated by the promise he made to himself as a fatherless child to never abandon his own children, the two spent almost a year moving from shelters, ""HO-tels"", and soup-lines. Never giving in to despair, Gardner makes an astonishing transformation from being part of the city's invisible to being a powerful player in its financial district. Here is the story of a man who breaks his own family's cycle of men abandoning their children, a story that appeals to the very essence of the American Dream.
Read by Andre Blake
Biographies & Memoirs
Cultural & Regional
Inspiring
Heartfelt
Professionals & Academics
Business