{"product_id":"2940169092424","title":"Who Is Rich?: A Novel","description":"\u003cb\u003eA provocative satire of love, sex, money, and politics that unfolds over four wild days in so-called \"paradise\"amp;mdash;the long-awaited first novel from the acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eSam the Cat\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"I seriously, deeply love this book.\"amp;mdash;Michael Cunningham\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e 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 charming New England beachside town. It's a place where, every year, studentsamp;mdash;nature poets and driftwood sculptors, widowed seniors, teenagers away from home for the first timeamp;mdash;show up to study with an esteemed faculty made up of prizewinning playwrights, actors, and historians; drunkards and perverts; members of the cultural elite; unknown nobodies, midlist somebodies, and legitimate starsamp;mdash;a place where drum circles happen on the beach at midnight, clothing optional.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Once more, Rich finds himself, in this seaside paradise, worrying about his family's nights without him and trying not to think about his book, now out of print, or his future as an illustrator at a glossy magazine about to go under, or his back taxes, or the shameless shenanigans of his colleagues at this summer make-out festival. He can't decide whether his own very real desire for love and human contact is going to rescue or destroy him.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e A warped and exhilarating tale of love and lust, \u003ci\u003eWho Is Rich?\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eWho Is Rich?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eWho Is Rich?\u003c\/i\u003e is a gem within the canon of infidelity literature [with] is a wonderful narrator, lacerating and gentle. . . . Comic, wondrous, and sad.\"\u003cb\u003eamp;mdash;\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Who Is Rich? \u003c\/i\u003eis a very funny, very frank, and often shocking book about an affair between a man and a woman at an annual writers' conference at a beach town. It is shocking for its intelligent sex scenes and for its Matthew Klam-particular observations and its outrageous humor about the way people behave when they're in crisis. It is a book-long meditation on the nature of a marriage under the stress of children and financial pressures.\"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eamp;mdash;New York\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\"\u003c\/i\u003eA brilliant rumination on the trap of cannibalizing one's life for art.\"\u003cb\u003eamp;mdash;\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"One of those novels with the rare power to mesmerize. It's a dazzling meditation on monogamy, parenthood, mortality, shame, erotic liberation, and artistic struggle, a tale told by an adulterous middle-aged schlub, full of sound and fury, and signifying, well, pretty much everything.\"\u003cb\u003eamp;mdash;\u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"This portrait of midlife crisis is almost scarily astute.\"\u003cb\u003eamp;mdash;\u003ci\u003ePeople\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"Klam explores excess and penury, conspicuous consumption and tortured artistic production, as well as monogamy and its discontents in an acidly funny portrait of a has-been cartoonist.\"\u003cb\u003eamp;mdash;\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review)\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47113923625200,"sku":"2940169092424","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169092424_p0.jpg?v=1763760708","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169092424","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}