The Financial Lives of the Poets - Softcover

Walter, Jess

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0062359835 ISBN 13: 9780062359834

Publisher: Perennial, 2014

Synopsis

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.

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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

About the Author

Jess Walter is the author of six novels, including the bestsellers Beautiful Ruins and The Financial Lives of the Poets, the National Book Award finalist The Zero, and Citizen Vince, the winner of the Edgar Award for best novel. His short fiction has appeared in Harper's, McSweeney's, and Playboy, as well as The Best American Short Stories and The Best American Nonrequired Reading. He lives in his hometown of Spokane, Washington.

About this edition

• Publisher: Perennial
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0062359835
• ISBN 13: 9780062359834
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 322