{"product_id":"9781787330450","title":"The Altruists - Andrew Ridker","description":"\u003cp\u003eReading Andrew Ridker's debut novel, you soon realise you're 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Andrew Ridker","offers":[{"title":"320 pages \/ 07\/03\/2019 \/ Modern \u0026 contemporary fiction (post c 1945)","offer_id":56970537795959,"sku":"9781787330450","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0682\/9454\/1624\/files\/9781787330450.jpg?v=1780998933","url":"https:\/\/gulpfictionbooks.com\/products\/9781787330450","provider":"Gulp Fiction","version":"1.0","type":"link"}