The Financial Lives of the Poets
Author(s): Jess Walter
Small-time finance journalist Matthew Prior gave up his day-job and gambled everything on setting up a website offering financial advice ...in witty blank verse. Then he woke up one day in the middle of the worst crisis since the 30s with no business, a shedload of debt, a lot of guilt and a great deal of suspicion about his wife who spends her time flirting online with her childhood sweetheart - a real guy with a real, man's job. So when Matt's offered some high-grade dope, and finds he can sell a little bit of it on, he thinks that maybe this is where the future lies...As Matt battles to save his marriage, his children's future and his sanity too, "The Financial Lives of the Poets" becomes a hugely funny but heartfelt novel about how we can reach the edge of ruin - and pull back.
General Information
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- : Penguin Books Ltd
- : Penguin Books Ltd
- : 0.205
- : 01 December 2010
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 December 2010
- : 01 February 2016
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Jess Walter
- : Paperback
- : 1
- : 304
More About The Product
Jess Walter has written four novels, most recently The Zero which was shortlisted for the National Book Award. He lives in Spokane, Washington with his family.