{"product_id":"9780812997989-1","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”—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.”—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, students—nature poets and driftwood sculptors, widowed seniors, teenagers away from home for the first time—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 stars—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.\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAdvance praise for \u003ci\u003eWho Is Rich?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“It’s amazing to wait so long for a book, and for it to be everything you wanted. The most singular quality of Matthew Klam’s writing is how alive it is. I loved every page of this book. It got into my bloodstream—and kind of destroyed me.”\u003cb\u003e—Curtis Sittenfeld\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“What a thrill to experience the fusion of Matthew Klam’s fierce, kinetic prose with the mysteries of fatherhood and domesticity. \u003ci\u003eWho Is Rich?\u003c\/i\u003e is an electric amalgam of frustration and tenderness, wonder and rebellion: a paean to the obliterating power of parental love.”\u003cb\u003e—Jennifer Egan\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“I’ve been eagerly awaiting another book by Matthew Klam—and here it is, and it’s a stunner. This, his first novel, is funny, dark, big, and bold. I read it straight through, with great pleasure and awe at all he knows about art, money, family, sex, kids, mortality, and shame. \u003ci\u003eWho Is Rich?\u003c\/i\u003e is not to be missed.”\u003cb\u003e—Meg Wolitzer\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“By turns fierce, disturbing, and outright hilarious, \u003ci\u003eWho Is Rich?\u003c\/i\u003e is much more than a novel of midlife crisis; it’s a frank exploration of what it feels like to struggle as an artist and a man.”\u003cb\u003e—Jonathan Tropper\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eWho Is Rich?\u003c\/i\u003e is a tantalizing novel—acute and smart and stark, but mostly it’s unrelentingly funny about a large number of very inappropriate things.”\u003cb\u003e—Richard Ford\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Random House Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47042069266672,"sku":"9780812997989","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780812997989_p0.jpg?v=1763742703","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780812997989-1","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}