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Patrick Finegan

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Patrick Finegan was born during the latter half of the Eisenhower Administration and graduated during the Carter and Reagan Administrations from Northwestern University and the University of Chicago Law School and Graduate School of Business. He worked more than thirty years in law, corporate finance, management consulting and risk management. He has a wife and grown daughter and has lived in the New York metropolitan area his entire professional life – most of it in the same residential cooperative.

Cooperative Lives was Mr. Finegan's first work of fiction. It won more than twenty domestic and international awards, including:



Grand Prize Finalist - 2019 Shelf Unbound Best Indie Book Competition | Category Winner (Literary Fiction) & Grand Pr
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Cooperative Lives

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If I could only commit myself so assiduously to writing!


That said, Duolingo has done wonders for my French, and my Italian is progressing. There are worse addictions.

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"Toys in Babylon is an absolute riot! Imagine your favorite language app going full murder mystery—mascots, AI instructors, and a whole lot of shenanigans. This book is like a meme come to life, but smarter. I was cracking up at the spot-on jokes abou" Read more of this review »
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