The Financial Lives of the Poets
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...
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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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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780061916052 (0061916056)
ASIN: 61916056
Publish date: September 7th 2010
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Pages no: 320
Edition language: English
Jess Walter is a writer who refuses to write books that will allow him to be pigeon-holed. His Citizen Vince is the darkly funny and oddly warm story of Vince Camden, a low-level hoodlum relocated by the Witness Protection Program to Spokane from New York, coming to terms with his new environment ...
All the reviews of this say that it's hilarious, a laugh riot. So funny! I didn't laugh even once. This is maybe the saddest book I've ever read, or at least the most poignant. I'm approximately the same age as Walter, and prey to the same generational conceits, fears, and acting out. There's a lot ...
i ha incuriosito il titolo. L'ho preso, per fortuna, in biblioteca. Il quadro dei personaggi è interessante, ma la narrazione, a mio modesto avviso, a un certo punto si ferma un po'. Forse mi aspettavo altro. Non so.
I'm giving this four stars because something about the way it was written really clicked with me. It's a little frustrating to not be able to pinpoint it better than that. The story flowed well and felt very real. I love the idea of financial advice in the form of poetry, but it seems like a featur...
Jess Walter is a fantastic writer and very funny. Can't believe he only just now crossed my radar. [full review]"There are these lakes in Northern Idaho that are supposed to be bottomless; the Navy used to do submarine training there. They'd think they had found the bottom and then a submarine would...
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