Jan 26 2011 7:00 pm
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It is often said that books can transport us to another place or time, but novelist Jess Walter’s gift is in writing about where we are now. In The Financial Lives of the Poets, his warmest, funniest, and best novel yet, Walter introduces us to a character many readers will recognize: a man faced with imminent fiscal meltdown who will go to any lengths to save his family. A few years ago, small-time finance journalist Matthew Prior quit his day job and gambled everything on a quixotic idea: a website devoted to financial journalism in the form of poetry—at the same time as his wife Lisa was siphoning off money into a misbegotten eBay figurine-resale business. Now, as the global economy collapses, Matt wakes up to find himself jobless, hobbled with debt, spying on his wife's online flirtation, and six days away from losing his home. Is this really how things were supposed to end up for me, he wonders: staying up all night worried, driving to 7-Eleven in the middle of the night to get milk for his boys, and falling in with two local degenerates after they offer him a hit of high-grade marijuana? Or, he thinks, could this be the solution to all my problems? Jess Walter is the author of The Zero, a National Book Award finalist; Citizen Vince, which won the Edgar Award for Best Novel; Land of the Blind, and Over Tumbled Graves, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Also the author of the nonfiction book Ruby Ridge, Walter lives in Spokane, Washington with his family. |
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Author Jess Walter will read from and sign his (recently-released in paperback) novel, The Financial Lives of the Poets.
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