The altruists : a novel
Record details
- ISBN: 0525522719 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 9780525522713 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 9780525522713 : HRD
- ISBN: 9780525522720 (ebook)
- ISBN: 0525522719 : HRD
- ISBN: 9780525522713 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 0525522719
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Physical Description:
308 pages ; 24 cm
print - Publisher: [New York, New York] : Viking, [2019]
Content descriptions
Summary, etc.: | A vibrant and perceptive novel about a father's plot to win back his children's inheritance. Arthur Alter is in trouble. A middling professor at a Midwestern college, he can't afford his mortgage, he's exasperated his much-younger 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--memories that orbit Francine, the matriarch whose life may hold the key to keeping them together. Spanning New York, Paris, Boston, St. Louis, and a small desert outpost in Zimbabwe, The Altruists is a darkly funny (and ultimately tender) family saga in the tradition of Jonathan Franzen and Jeffrey Eugenides, with shades of Philip Roth and Zadie Smith. It's a novel about money, privilege, politics, campus culture, dating, talk therapy, rural sanitation, infidelity, kink, the American beer industry, and what it means to be a "good person." |
Search for related items by subject
Subject: | Inheritance and succession Fiction College teachers Fiction |
Genre: | Domestic fiction. Domestic fiction. |
Available copies
- 21 of 21 copies available at Bibliomation.
- 1 of 1 copy available at Rowayton Library. (Show)
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- 0 current holds with 21 total copies.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Rowayton Library | F RID (Text) | 33625122822914 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Bentley Memorial Library - Bolton | FIC Rid (Text) | 33160142917577 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Bethel Public Library | RIDKER (Text) | 34030142861365 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
C.H. Booth Library - Newtown | FIC RIDKER (Text) | 34014142898791 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Edith Wheeler Memorial Library - Monroe | FIC RIDKER,A (Text) | 34026141858600 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Hagaman Memorial Library - East Haven | F RIDKER (Text) | 31953142949802 | Adult New Fiction | Available | - |
Howard Whittemore Library - Naugatuck | FIC RIDKER, ANDREW (Text) | 34027141441678 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Kent Memorial Library - Suffield | FICTION RIDKER (Text) | 32518144354969 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Milford Public Library | RIDKER Andrew (Text) | 34013143626979 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Milford Public Library | RIDKER Andrew (Text) | 34013143630153 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |