The Altruists: A Novel

Andrew Ridker

Penguin??Books

Hope

Penguin US

Hope: 'Intelligent, Bighearted, Spew-Your-gefilte-fish-funny' New York Times

Farrago

The Altruists

Vintage

<p>'Reading Andrew Ridkers debut novel, you soon realise youre in the presence of a new talent.' The TimesArthur 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.</p>

Romance

Contemporary

Jonathan Cape Ltd.

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