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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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- 2020
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- Titel
- The Altruists
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Andrew Ridker
- Verlag
- Random House UK Ltd
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2020
- Einband
- Paperback
- Seitenzahl
- 320
- ISBN10
- 1784707546
- ISBN13
- 9781784707545
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Belletristik, Familie, Gegenwartsliteratur, Beziehungen, Amerikanische Literatur, Literarische Fiktion, Familienbeziehungen, Sagen, Familiensagas, Erbe, Schwarzer Humor
- Erstveröffentlichung
- 2019
- Originaltitel
- The Altruists
- Bewertung
- 3,15 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- '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.