The altruists
(Book - Regular Print)
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Published
[New York, New York] : Viking, [2019].
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 24 cm
Status
Sedona Public Library - FIC - Fiction Books
RIDKER, A.
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RIDKER, A.
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Published
[New York, New York] : Viking, [2019].
Format
Book - Regular Print
Language
English
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Description
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 in the tradition of Jonathan Franzen and Jeffrey Eugenides, with shades of Philip Roth and Zadie Smith. 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."
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Ridker, A. (2019). The altruists . Viking.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Ridker, Andrew. 2019. The Altruists. Viking.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Ridker, Andrew. The Altruists Viking, 2019.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Ridker, Andrew. The Altruists Viking, 2019.
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