Mayor Julian Thorne runs his city from a very great height — right up until one bad photograph puts him one viral headline from irrelevance. So he does what any billionaire in his position would do: he vanishes for two weeks, checks into a rooming house under a fake name, and sets out to remember what an ordinary Tuesday feels like.
He is spectacularly bad at it. He negotiates the price of a coffee. He tips a laundromat like it's a hotel restaurant. He gets corrected on bus etiquette by people half his age and none of his patience. And somewhere between a food bank line, a broken boiler, and the least impressed barista in the province, he discovers something considerably worse than embarrassment: the apartment building down the street from his rented room — and the forty families about to be evicted from it — belongs to him.
Julian came looking for perspective. He found the thing he came to fix. Now he has one Monday council vote he can't dodge, one neighbor who still doesn't know his real name, and exactly two weeks to decide whether he's willing to lose everything he built his reputation on in order to deserve it.
THE RICHEST MAN ON THE BUS is a dry-witted, big-hearted comedy about hypocrisy, housing, and the specific humiliation of learning who you really are from a stranger's newspaper — for readers who like their laughs with a genuine ache underneath.
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Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. Mayor Julian Thorne runs his city from a very great height - right up until one bad photograph puts him one viral headline from irrelevance. So he does what any billionaire in his position would do: he vanishes for two weeks, checks into a rooming house under a fake name, and sets out to remember what an ordinary Tuesday feels like.He is spectacularly bad at it. He negotiates the price of a coffee. He tips a laundromat like it's a hotel restaurant. He gets corrected on bus etiquette by people half his age and none of his patience. And somewhere between a food bank line, a broken boiler, and the least impressed barista in the province, he discovers something considerably worse than embarrassment: the apartment building down the street from his rented room - and the forty families about to be evicted from it - belongs to him.Julian came looking for perspective. He found the thing he came to fix. Now he has one Monday council vote he can't dodge, one neighbor who still doesn't know his real name, and exactly two weeks to decide whether he's willing to lose everything he built his reputation on in order to deserve it.THE RICHEST MAN ON THE BUS is a dry-witted, big-hearted comedy about hypocrisy, housing, and the specific humiliation of learning who you really are from a stranger's newspaper - for readers who like their laughs with a genuine ache underneath. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. N° de réf. du vendeur 9781997156093
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Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Mayor Julian Thorne runs his city from a very great height - right up until one bad photograph puts him one viral headline from irrelevance. So he does what any billionaire in his position would do: he vanishes for two weeks, checks into a rooming house under a fake name, and sets out to remember what an ordinary Tuesday feels like.He is spectacularly bad at it. He negotiates the price of a coffee. He tips a laundromat like it's a hotel restaurant. He gets corrected on bus etiquette by people half his age and none of his patience. And somewhere between a food bank line, a broken boiler, and the least impressed barista in the province, he discovers something considerably worse than embarrassment: the apartment building down the street from his rented room - and the forty families about to be evicted from it - belongs to him.Julian came looking for perspective. He found the thing he came to fix. Now he has one Monday council vote he can't dodge, one neighbor who still doesn't know his real name, and exactly two weeks to decide whether he's willing to lose everything he built his reputation on in order to deserve it.THE RICHEST MAN ON THE BUS is a dry-witted, big-hearted comedy about hypocrisy, housing, and the specific humiliation of learning who you really are from a stranger's newspaper - for readers who like their laughs with a genuine ache underneath. N° de réf. du vendeur 9781997156093
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Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. Mayor Julian Thorne runs his city from a very great height - right up until one bad photograph puts him one viral headline from irrelevance. So he does what any billionaire in his position would do: he vanishes for two weeks, checks into a rooming house under a fake name, and sets out to remember what an ordinary Tuesday feels like.He is spectacularly bad at it. He negotiates the price of a coffee. He tips a laundromat like it's a hotel restaurant. He gets corrected on bus etiquette by people half his age and none of his patience. And somewhere between a food bank line, a broken boiler, and the least impressed barista in the province, he discovers something considerably worse than embarrassment: the apartment building down the street from his rented room - and the forty families about to be evicted from it - belongs to him.Julian came looking for perspective. He found the thing he came to fix. Now he has one Monday council vote he can't dodge, one neighbor who still doesn't know his real name, and exactly two weeks to decide whether he's willing to lose everything he built his reputation on in order to deserve it.THE RICHEST MAN ON THE BUS is a dry-witted, big-hearted comedy about hypocrisy, housing, and the specific humiliation of learning who you really are from a stranger's newspaper - for readers who like their laughs with a genuine ache underneath. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. N° de réf. du vendeur 9781997156093
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