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The Financial Lives of the Poets: A Novel (P.S.)
by Jess Walter

Published: 2010-09-07
Paperback : 320 pages
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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, ...

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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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  "Bad Title, Hilarious Tale"by Betty S. (see profile) 03/15/15

This book is hilarious, though I muttered OMG several times at thoroughly bad decisions made. Scenes at a 7-11 were laugh out loud. Someone in my book group compared it to Breaking Bad in its dark humor.... (read more)

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