This is How it Really Sounds

Three men with the same name, scattered across Los Angeles, Shanghai (via New York) and Alaska, see their lives come together in a novel whose adventures zigzag across East and West.

This is How it Really Sounds by Stuart Archer Cohen tells the intertwined stories of Pete Harrington, an aging rock star relegated to third-tier venues and teetering on the edge of either bankruptcy or a smash hit single; Peter Harrington, a financier who has fled New York for Shanghai after hedging against the downfall of his own company; and Peter "Harry" (for clarity's sake) Harrington, an extreme skier in small-town Alaska.