The pursuit of happyness
By: by Chris Gardner with Quincy Troupe and Mim Eichler Rivas
Edition: 1st Amistad Pbk. ed.
Publisher: Amistad
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9780060744878
Subjects: Homeless persons; Stockbrokers; Fathers; African Americans; Biography
Description: At the age of twenty, African American 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 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 in shelters, "HO-tels", and soup-lines. Never giving in to despair, Gardner went from being part of the city's invisible to being a powerful player in its financial district.--From publisher description.
Notes: Film tie-in.