The Financial Lives of the Poets (P.S.) - Softcover

Walter, Jess

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0061916056 ISBN 13: 9780061916052

Publisher: Harper Perennial, 2010

Synopsis

[ { By Walter, Jess ( Author ) THE FINANCIAL LIVES OF THE POETS (HARPER PERENNIAL) Sep-01-2010 Paperback } ]

About this title

Review:

"A real find..the ultimate something-for-everyone-don't-skip-must-read." -- The Daily Beast

"One of the best American writers working today..It's a testament to this author's genius that I could not stop laughing even as he drives home some necessary truths. Walter has written a profound, and profoundly funny, book; this may well be the classic novel of our post-boom era." -- Ben Fountain, author of Brief Encounters with Che Guevara

"A laugh out loud, desperately painful account of an economy and a marriage in meltdown." -- Nick Hornby, People Magazine

"Hilarious and timely.Walter grounds the story with moments of genuine feeling.bitter, funny and accurate.Jess Walter's buoyant voice is a fresh pleasure." -- New West

"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

"In this cautionary tale of fiscal follies and collapse Walter delivers a comic and gut-wrenching fable for these impecunious times."--Kansas City Star

"Jess Walter is a brilliant writer, one of the freshest new voices in American literature."--Dallas Morning News

"The funniest way-we-live-now book of the year."--Time magazine

"[Walter is a] deft humorist and catastrophist. . . . dangerously astute."--Janet Maslin, New York Times

"Hilarious and timely...Walter grounds the story with moments of genuine feeling...bitter, funny and accurate...Jess Walter's buoyant voice is a fresh pleasure."--New West

From the Back Cover:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0061916056
• ISBN 13: 9780061916052
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320