The Financial Lives of the Poets - Couverture rigide

Walter, Jess

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0061916048 ISBN 13 : 9780061916045

Editeur : Harper, 2009

Synopsis

Book by Walter Jess

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture :

Meet Matt Prior. He's about to lose his job, his wife, his house, maybe his mind. Unless . . .

In the winning and utterly original novels Citizen Vince and The Zero, Jess Walter ("a ridiculously talented writer"—New York Times) painted an America all his own: a land of real, flawed, and deeply human characters coping with the anxieties of their times. Now, in his warmest, funniest, and best novel yet, Walter offers a story as real as our own lives: a tale of overstretched accounts, misbegotten schemes, and domestic dreams deferred.

A few years ago, small-time finance journalist Matthew Prior quit his day job to gamble everything on a quixotic notion: a Web site devoted to financial journalism in the form of blank verse. When his big idea—and his wife's eBay resale business— ends with a whimper (and a garage full of unwanted figurines), they borrow and borrow, whistling past the graveyard of their uncertain dreams. One morning Matt wakes up to find himself jobless, hobbled with debt, spying on his wife's online flirtation, and six days away from losing his home. Is this really how things were supposed to end up for me, he wonders: staying up all night worried, driving to 7-Eleven in the middle of the night to get milk for his boys, and falling in with two local degenerates after they offer him a hit of high-grade marijuana?

Or, he thinks, could this be the solution to all my problems?

Following Matt in his weeklong quest to save his marriage, his sanity, and his dreams, The Financial Lives of the Poets is a hysterical, heartfelt novel about how we can reach the edge of ruin—and how we can begin to make our way back.

Revue de presse :

“A deliciously antic tale of an American dream gone very sour...part noir gumshoe, part average Joe, [Matt Prior] is a sharp, wide-eyed, soulful observer, with a keen eye for the layers of bureaucracy and doublespeak.” (Washington Post)

“Would be so sad if it weren’t so funny, and so funny if it weren’t so sad. . . . Compassionate, witty and drawn from today’s heartless world, it’s a terrific book.” (Arizona Republic)

“An extremely funny novel...a very smart meditation on what’s gone wrong with both the US economy and those of us who are expected to keep it running...cleverly designed and immensely entertaining.” (Christian Science Monitor)

“The funniest way-we-live-now book of the year.” (Time magazine)

“The novel has warmth, and its protagonist emerges as a bourgeois Everyman of the downturn.” (The New Yorker)

“[Walter is a] deft humorist and catastrophist. . . . dangerously astute.” (Janet Maslin, New York Times)

“Walter is one of my favorite young American writers. . . . [Financial Lives] made me laugh more than any other book published this year.” (Nick Hornby, Parade)

“A real find....the ultimate something-for-everyone-don’t-skip-must-read.” (Sara Nelson, The Daily Beast)

“[A] superb farce.” (Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air)

“Cynical yet warm, this novel about a financial reporter (with a failing website written entirely in blank verse) is a delight.” (The Must List, Entertainment Weekly)

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Harper
• Date d'édition: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0061916048
• ISBN 13: 9780061916045
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 304