Who Is Rich?: A Novel
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| Rating | : | 4.25 (768 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01M3413A8 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 451 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-05-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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Avid_Reader said Worthwhile Update of an Old Theme.. As many reviewers have already noted the theme of white male middle aged angst is well worn, yet deftly executed by wordsmith Klam. I agree. Besides the humorous ruminations on mid-life crisis, Klam provided some excellent venting about class resentment in the age where today the owner of this site bec. Class Conflict Stirs a Pity Party in the Heart of a Graphic Novelist When I read the premise of Matthew Klam’s latest novel, a tale about an affair between one privileged, educated artist with a super privileged socialite who meet while the artist is teaching illustrating at a once opulent boutique college in the upper East coast, I was not encouraged because of t. Marc Williams said A terrible reading experience. Sloppy, convoluted writing. Unsympathetic characters. A wildly meandering storyline. All of which could be forgiven if it was even mildly amusing. It's not.
Matthew Klam is the author of the acclaimed short story collection Sam the Cat. Henry Prize Stories, The Best American Nonrequired Reading, and The Ecco Anthology of Contemporary American Short Fiction. . Bingham Prize, a Whiting Award, and a National Endowment for the Arts grant. He is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a PEN/Robert W. His wr
He’s written a novel—about a white, middle-aged, once successful graphic novelist-turned-steadily-working-illustrator—that touches on family, love, aging, unhappiness, infidelity, life as a working artist, and money. But Rich is also an artist. Making his protagonist white and middle-aged was a brave choice, because Rich (the protagonist) does some complaining in this novel (and some cheating), and a lot of readers don’t like to see white, middle-aged men complain or cheat. He’s educated, he’s talented, and he’s frustrated that he still has to stru
Comic, wondrous, and sad.”—The New Yorker“Like all great humorists, Klam is a sharp observer and he skewers his targets here with specificity and brio.”—Maureen Corrigan, Fresh Air“A brilliant rumination on the trap of cannibalizing one’s life for art.”—The Washington Post “One of those novels with the rare power to mesmerize. A warped and exhilarating tale of love and lust, Who Is Rich? goes far beyond to address deeper questions: of family, monogamy, the intoxicating beauty of children, and the challenging interdependence of two soulful, sensitive creatures in a confusing domestic alliance.Praise for Who Is Rich?“Who Is Rich? is a gem within the canon of infidelity literature with a wonderful narrator, lacerating and gentle. A provocative satire of love, sex, money, and politics that unfolds over four wild days in so-called “paradise”—the long-awaited first novel from the acclaimed author of Sam the Cat “I seriously, deeply love this book.”—Michael Cunningham Every summer, a once-sort-of-famous cartoonist named Rich Fischer leaves his wife and two kids behind to teach a class at a weeklong arts conference in a cha