Who is Rich?

'Who Is Rich?' is a novel by Richard Ford that is acute, smart, and stark, but also unrelentingly funny about a large number of inappropriate things. It follows the story of Rich Fischer, a once-sort-of famous cartoonist who teaches a class at a week-long arts conference in a charming New England beachside town. One of the attendees is Amy ODonnell, a forty-one-year-old painting student who is unhappily married to a brutish Wall Street titan. The novel explores themes of love, lust, midlife alienation, erotic pleasure, envy, and bitterness in the new gilded age, addressing deeper questions of family, monogamy, the beauty of children, and the challenging interdependence of two soulful, sensitive creatures in a confusing domestic alliance.

\n Format: Paperback / softback
\n Length: 336 pages
\n Publication date: 02 May 2019
\n Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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Every summer, a once-sort-of famous cartoonist named Rich Fischer leaves his wife and two kids behind to teach a class at a week-long arts conference in a charming New England beachside town. It's a place where drum circles happen on the beach at midnight, clothing optional. Rich finds himself worrying about his family's nights without him, his back taxes, his stuttering career, and his own very real desire for love and human contact. One of the attendees this year is a forty-one-year-old painting student named Amy ODonnell. Amy is a mother of three, unhappily married to a brutish Wall Street titan who commutes to work via helicopter. Rich and Amy met at the conference a year ago, shared a moment of passion, then spent the winter exchanging inappropriate texts and emails and counting the days until they could see each other again. Now they're back.

Who Is Rich? is a twisted and exhilarating tale of love and lust, a study in midlife alienation, erotic pleasure, envy, and bitterness in the new gilded age that goes far beyond humor and satire 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.

Rich Fischer is a once-sort-of famous cartoonist who leaves his wife and two kids behind every summer to teach a class at a week-long arts conference in a charming New England beachside town. It's a place where drum circles happen on the beach at midnight, clothing optional. Rich finds himself worrying about his family's nights without him, his back taxes, his stuttering career, and his own very real desire for love and human contact. One of the attendees this year is a forty-one-year-old painting student named Amy ODonnell. Amy is a mother of three, unhappily married to a brutish Wall Street titan who commutes to work via helicopter. Rich and Amy met at the conference a year ago, shared a moment of passion, then spent the winter exchanging inappropriate texts and emails and counting the days until they could see each other again. Now they're back.

Who Is Rich? is a twisted and exhilarating tale of love and lust, a study in midlife alienation, erotic pleasure, envy, and bitterness in the new gilded age that goes far beyond humor and satire 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.

Rich Fischer is a once-sort-of famous cartoonist who leaves his wife and two kids behind every summer to teach a class at a week-long arts conference in a charming New England beachside town. It's a place where drum circles. circles happen on the beach at midnight, clothing optional. Rich finds himself worrying about his family's nights without him, his back taxes, his stuttering career, and his own very real desire for love and human contact. One of the attendees this year is a forty-one-year-old painting student named Amy ODonnell. Amy is a mother of three, unhappily married to a brutish Wall Street titan who commutes to work via helicopter. Rich and Amy met at the conference a year ago, shared a moment of passion, then spent the winter exchanging inappropriate texts and emails and counting the days until they could see each other again. Now they're back.

Who Is Rich? is a twisted and exhilarating tale of love and lust, a study in midlife alienation, erotic pleasure, envy, and bitterness in the new gilded age that goes far beyond humor and satire 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.

Rich Fischer is a once-sort-of famous cartoonist who leaves his wife and two kids behind every summer to teach a class at a week-long arts conference in a charming New England beachside town. It's a place where drum circles happen on the beach at midnight, clothing optional. Rich finds himself worrying about his family's nights without him, his back taxes, his stuttering career, and his own very real desire for love and human contact. One of the attendees this year is a forty-one-year-old painting student named Amy ODonnell. Amy is a mother of three, unhappily married to a brutish Wall Street titan who commutes to work via helicopter. Rich and Amy met at the conference a year ago, shared a moment of passion, then spent the winter exchanging inappropriate texts and emails and counting the days until they could see each other again. Now they're back.

Who Is Rich? is a twisted and exhilarating tale of love and lust, a study in midlife alienation, erotic pleasure, envy, and bitterness in the new gilded age that goes far beyond humor and satire 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.

\n Weight: 242g\n
Dimension: 131 x 197 x 20 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9780008282547\n \n