The Altruists Hardback
by Andrew Ridker
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'Reading Andrew Ridker's debut novel, you soon realise you're in the presence of a new talent.' The TimesArthur Alter is in trouble.
A middling professor at a Midwestern college, he can't afford his mortgage, he's exasperated his new 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. Spanning New York, Paris, Boston, St. Louis, and a small desert outpost in Zimbabwe, The Altruists is a razor-sharp, darkly funny family saga from a sparkling new talent.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:320 pages
- Publisher:Vintage Publishing
- Publication Date:07/03/2019
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- ISBN:9781787330450
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In Stock - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:320 pages
- Publisher:Vintage Publishing
- Publication Date:07/03/2019
- Category:
- ISBN:9781787330450