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'Reading Andrew Ridker's debut novel, you soon realise you're in the presence of a new talent.' The Times Arthur 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.
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The Altruists, Andrew Ridker
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- Rok vydania
- 2020
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- Titul
- The Altruists
- Jazyk
- anglicky
- Autori
- Andrew Ridker
- Vydavateľ
- Random House UK Ltd
- Rok vydania
- 2020
- Väzba
- mäkká
- Počet strán
- 320
- ISBN10
- 1784707546
- ISBN13
- 9781784707545
- Série
- Štítky
- Beletria, Rodina, Súčasná literatúra, Vzťahy, Americká literatúra, Spoločenské romány, Rodinné vzťahy, Ságy, Rodinné ságy, Dedičstvo, Čierny humor
- Prvé vydanie
- 2019
- Pôvodný názov
- The Altruists
- Hodnotenie
- 3,15 z 5
- Anotácia
- 'Reading Andrew Ridker's debut novel, you soon realise you're in the presence of a new talent.' The Times Arthur 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.