The Financial Lives of the Poets - (P.S.) by Jess Walter (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>From National Book Award-finalist Walter comes a hysterically funny--and painfully timely--novel of one man's attempt to save his family from economic disaster by putting his entrepreneurial leanings toward a life of petty crime.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><strong>"Darkly funny, surprisingly tender . . . witheringly dead-on." -- <em>Los Angeles Times</em></strong></p><p><strong>Named one of the year's best novels by: <em>Time</em> - <em>Salon.com</em> - <em>Los Angeles Times</em> - <em>NPR/Fresh Air</em> - <em>New West</em> - <em>Kansas City Star</em> - <em>St. Louis Post-Dispatch</em></strong></p><p><strong>A comic and heartfelt novel from the #1 <em>New York Times</em> bestselling author of <em>Beautiful Ruins and Cold Millions</em> about how we get to the edge of ruin--and how we begin to make our way back.</strong></p><p>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?</p><p>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.</p><p> </p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br><p>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?</p><p>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.</p><p>The cover of this paperback edition comes in three different colors: green, blue, and orange.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"[A] superb farce."--<strong>Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air</strong><br><br>"[Walter is a] deft humorist and catastrophist. . . . dangerously astute."--<strong>Janet Maslin, <em>New York Times</em></strong><br><br>"A comic masterpiece... packed [with] life and wry truth."--<strong>Jeffrey Burke, <em>Bloomberg News</em></strong><br><br>"A deliciously antic tale of an American dream gone very sour...part noir gumshoe, part average Joe, [Matt Prior] is a sharp, wide-eyed, soulful observer, with a keen eye for the layers of bureaucracy and doublespeak."--<strong><em>Washington Post</em></strong><br><br>"A real find....the ultimate something-for-everyone-don't-skip-must-read."--<strong>Sara Nelson, <em>The Daily Beast</em></strong><br><br>"A refreshing reminder that fiction remains a relevant, vital way to understand ourselves."--<strong><em>The Oregonian</em> (Portland)</strong><br><br>"An extremely funny novel...a very smart meditation on what's gone wrong with both the US economy and those of us who are expected to keep it running...cleverly designed and immensely entertaining."--<strong><em>Christian Science Monitor</em></strong><br><br>"Cynical yet warm, this novel about a financial reporter (with a failing website written entirely in blank verse) is a delight."--<strong><em>Entertainment Weekly</em></strong><br><br>"Darkly funny, surprisingly tender . . . witheringly dead-on."--<strong><em>Los Angeles Times</em></strong><br><br>"In this cautionary tale of fiscal follies and collapse Walter delivers a comic and gut-wrenching fable for these impecunious times."--<strong><em>Kansas City Star</em></strong><br><br>"The funniest way-we-live-now book of the year."--<strong><em>Time</em> magazine</strong><br><br>"The novel has warmth, and its protagonist emerges as a bourgeois Everyman of the downturn."--<strong><em>The New Yorker</em></strong><br><br>"Walter's <em>The Financial Lives of the Poets</em> is gasp out loud funny. It's also sufficiently true to life that you're grateful it's not your life. Middle-class mayhem is just the best, at least in Walter's hands."--<strong><em>New York Daily News</em></strong><br><br>"Would be so sad if it weren't so funny, and so funny if it weren't so sad. . . . Compassionate, witty and drawn from today's heartless world, it's a terrific book."--<strong><em>Arizona Republic</em></strong><br><br>"National Book Award-finalist Walter does for the nation's bleak financial landscape what he did for 9-11 in <i>The Zero</i>: whip-smart satire with heart."--<em>Publishers Weekly</em> <strong>(starred review)</strong><br><br>"Jess Walter's <i>The Financial Lives of the Poets</i> is a comic, graceful parable of marriage and money troubles in which a well-meaning family man makes decisions that are seriously stupid--and entertaining and American."--Sarah Vowell, author of Assassination Vacation and The Wordy Shipmates<br><br>"Confirms Jess Walter as a writer of the first rank....his eye keen for the true values of the human heart. This is a hopped-up, raucous stunner of a novel with a hero who's funny enough to make you weep for what we've lost."--Whitney Terrell, author of The King of Kings County and The Huntsman<br><br>"Jess Walter's smart and big-hearted take on our bleak national moment is a welcome relief. The Financial Lives of the Poets is a rollicking fiction and an affecting family portrait, as well as a mordantly funny cautionary tale."--Sam Lipsyte, author of Home Land and Venus Drive<br><br>"One of the best American writers working today....It's a testament to this author's genius that I could not stop laughing even as he drives home some necessary truths. Walter has written a profound, and profoundly funny, book; this may well be the classic novel of our post-boom era."--Ben Fountain, author of Brief Encounters with Che Guevara<br><br>"Walter is one of my favorite young American writers. . . . [Financial Lives] made me laugh more than any other book published this year."--Nick Hornby, Parade<br><br>"When it comes to explaining to me my own too often baffling nation, there's no one writing today whom I trust as completely as Jess Walter. His intelligence and sympathy and great wit inform every page--indeed every sentence--of his terrific new novel, The Financial Lives of the Poets. "--Richard Russo, author of That Old Cape Magic and Empire Falls<br>
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