The Financial Lives of the Poets - A Novel

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.

Product details

• Authors: Jess Walter
• Publisher: Harper Perennial USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2014
• EAN: 9780062359834
• ISBN: 978-0-06-235983-4
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 114 mm x 181 mm x 22 mm
• Series: Harper Perennial; Olive Edition; Olive Edition; Harper Perennial Olive Editions
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Poetry, Family life fiction, United States of America, USA, Anthologies: general, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Holidays, events and seasonal interest, Satirical fiction and parodies, FICTION: Literary, FICTION: Family Life / General, FICTION: Family Life / Siblings, FICTION: Family Life / Marriage & Divorce, POETRY: American / General, FICTION: Holidays, FICTION: Absurdist *, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: American / General, FICTION: Satire, FICTION: Humorous / Black Humor