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The Financial Lives of the Poets

Audiobook

"Darkly funny, surprisingly tender . . . witheringly dead-on." — Los Angeles Times

Named one of the year's best novels by: Time

  • Salon.com
  • Los Angeles Times
  • NPR/Fresh Air
  • New West
  • Kansas City Star
  • St. Louis Post-Dispatch

    A comic and heartfelt novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins and Cold Millions about how we get to the edge of ruin—and how we begin to make our way back.

    What happens when small-time reporter Matthew Prior quits his job to gamble everything on a quixotic notion: a Web site devoted to financial journalism in the form of blank verse?

    Before long, he wakes up to find himself jobless, hobbled with debt, spying on his wife's online flirtation, and six days away from losing his home. . . . Until, one night on a desperate two a.m. run to 7-Eleven, he falls in with some local stoners, and they end up hatching the biggest—and most misbegotten—plan yet.


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    Publisher: HarperAudio Edition: Unabridged

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    • ISBN: 9780061988134
    • File size: 228454 KB
    • Release date: November 17, 2009
    • Duration: 07:55:56

    MP3 audiobook

    • ISBN: 9780061988134
    • File size: 228799 KB
    • Release date: November 17, 2009
    • Duration: 07:55:56
    • Number of parts: 7

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    "Darkly funny, surprisingly tender . . . witheringly dead-on." — Los Angeles Times

    Named one of the year's best novels by: Time

  • Salon.com
  • Los Angeles Times
  • NPR/Fresh Air
  • New West
  • Kansas City Star
  • St. Louis Post-Dispatch

    A comic and heartfelt novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins and Cold Millions about how we get to the edge of ruin—and how we begin to make our way back.

    What happens when small-time reporter Matthew Prior quits his job to gamble everything on a quixotic notion: a Web site devoted to financial journalism in the form of blank verse?

    Before long, he wakes up to find himself jobless, hobbled with debt, spying on his wife's online flirtation, and six days away from losing his home. . . . Until, one night on a desperate two a.m. run to 7-Eleven, he falls in with some local stoners, and they end up hatching the biggest—and most misbegotten—plan yet.


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    • Details

      Publisher:
      HarperAudio
      Edition:
      Unabridged

      OverDrive Listen audiobook
      ISBN: 9780061988134
      File size: 228454 KB
      Release date: November 17, 2009
      Duration: 07:55:56

      MP3 audiobook
      ISBN: 9780061988134
      File size: 228799 KB
      Release date: November 17, 2009
      Duration: 07:55:56
      Number of parts: 7

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