The Financial Lives of the Poets
A Novel
(Sprache: Englisch)
What happens when small-time reporter Matthew Prior quits his job to gamble everything on a quixotic notion: a Web site devoted to financial journalism in the form of blank verse?Before long, he wakes up to find himself jobless, hobbled with debt, spying on...
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What happens when small-time reporter Matthew Prior quits his job to gamble everything on a quixotic notion: a Web site devoted to financial journalism in the form of blank verse?Before long, he wakes up to find himself jobless, hobbled with debt, spying on his wife's online flirtation, and six days away from losing his home. . . . Until, one night on a desperate two a.m. run to 7-Eleven, he falls in with some local stoners, and they end up hatching the biggest - and most misbegotten - plan yet.The cover of this paperback edition comes in three different colors: green, blue, and orange.
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The Financial Lives of the Poets is a comic and heartfelt novel from National Book Award nominee Jess Walter, author of Citizen Vince and The Zero, about how we get to the edge of ruin-and how we begin to make our way back.Walter tells the story of Matt Prior, who's losing his job, his wife, his house, and his mind-until, all of a sudden, he discovers a way that he might just possibly be able to save it all.... and have a pretty damn great time doing it.
Autoren-Porträt von Jess Walter
Jess Walter arbeitet vorwiegend als Journalist. Er lebt mit seiner Familie in Spokane, Washington.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Jess Walter
- 2010, Reprint., 322 Seiten, Maße: 13,3 x 20,3 cm, Taschenbuch, Englisch
- Verlag: HarperCollins US
- ISBN-10: 0061916056
- ISBN-13: 9780061916052
- Erscheinungsdatum: 01.09.2010
Sprache:
Englisch
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