Author : Jess Walter
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 006196591X
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis The Financial Lives of the Poets by : Jess Walter
Download or read book The Financial Lives of the Poets written by Jess Walter and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-09-22 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Darkly funny, surprisingly tender . . . witheringly dead-on.” — Los Angeles Times Named one of the year’s best novels by: Time • Salon.com • Los Angeles Times • NPR/Fresh Air • New West • Kansas City Star • St. Louis Post-Dispatch A comic and heartfelt novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins and Cold Millions about how we get to the edge of ruin—and how we begin to make our way back. 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.