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    The Altruists

     
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    The Altruists

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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.

    Spanning New York, Paris, Boston, St. Louis, and a small desert outpost in Zimbabwe, The Altruists is a razor-sharp, darkly funny family saga from a sparkling new talent.

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    EAN/ISBN:
    9781787331686
    Medium:
    Paperback
    Number of pages:
    320
    Publication date:
    2019-03-07
    Publisher:
    Jonathan Cape
    EAN/ISBN:
    9781787331686
    Medium:
    Paperback
    Number of pages:
    320
    Publication date:
    2019-03-07
    Publisher:
    Jonathan Cape

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