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The Altruists: A Novel
The Altruists: A Novel
Автор
Andrew Ridker
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A Real Simple Best Book of the Year (So Far)
A vibrant and perceptive novel about a father´s plot to win back his children´s inheritance
Arthur Alter is in trouble. A middling professor at a Midwestern college, he can´t afford his mortgage, he´s exasperated his much-younger girlfriend, and his kids won´t speak to him. And then there´s the money--the small fortune his late wife, Francine, kept secret, which she bequeathed directly to his children.
Those children are Ethan, an anxious recluse living off his mother´s money on a choice plot of Brooklyn real estate, and Maggie, a would-be do-gooder trying to fashion herself a noble life of self-imposed poverty. On the verge of losing the family home, Arthur invites his children back to St. Louis under the guise of a reconciliation. But in doing so, he unwittingly unleashes a Pandora´s box of age-old resentments and long-buried memories--memories that orbit Francine, the matriarch whose life may hold the key to keeping them together.
Spanning New York, Paris, Boston, St. Louis, and a small desert outpost in Zimbabwe, The Altruists is a darkly funny (and ultimately tender) family saga that confronts the divide between baby boomers and their millennial offspring. It´s a novel about money, privilege, politics, campus culture, dating, talk therapy, rural sanitation, infidelity, kink, the American beer industry, and what it means to be a "good person."
A vibrant and perceptive novel about a father´s plot to win back his children´s inheritance
Arthur Alter is in trouble. A middling professor at a Midwestern college, he can´t afford his mortgage, he´s exasperated his much-younger girlfriend, and his kids won´t speak to him. And then there´s the money--the small fortune his late wife, Francine, kept secret, which she bequeathed directly to his children.
Those children are Ethan, an anxious recluse living off his mother´s money on a choice plot of Brooklyn real estate, and Maggie, a would-be do-gooder trying to fashion herself a noble life of self-imposed poverty. On the verge of losing the family home, Arthur invites his children back to St. Louis under the guise of a reconciliation. But in doing so, he unwittingly unleashes a Pandora´s box of age-old resentments and long-buried memories--memories that orbit Francine, the matriarch whose life may hold the key to keeping them together.
Spanning New York, Paris, Boston, St. Louis, and a small desert outpost in Zimbabwe, The Altruists is a darkly funny (and ultimately tender) family saga that confronts the divide between baby boomers and their millennial offspring. It´s a novel about money, privilege, politics, campus culture, dating, talk therapy, rural sanitation, infidelity, kink, the American beer industry, and what it means to be a "good person."
Доставка 3-6 недель
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14,99 €
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Формат
Mягкая обложка
Автор
Andrew Ridker
Издательство
Penguin Putnam Inc
Дата добавления
17.05.2024
Год публикации
03.03.2020
Страницы
336
Kод продукта
9780525522737
Штрихкод
9780525522737
ISBN
9780525522737