Who Is Rich?: A Novel
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| Rating | : | 4.38 (932 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01M3413A8 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 526 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-09-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Worthwhile Update of an Old Theme." according to Avid_Reader. 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 became the wealthiest man in the . M. JEFFREY MCMAHON said 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 the familiarity of the set-up. . 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.
He’s made choices based on passion—passion for his art, for love—which is how it should be. 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. 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 struggle to make ends meet. But what happens when the passion begins to ebb? What are you left with then? Matthew Klam strikes me as a writer’s writer, and I think that other authors will love this work; he’s just so honest and talented. But there are other people out there who will be practically relieved t
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. It’s a dazzling meditation told by an adulterous middle-aged schlub, full of sound and fury, and signifying, well, pretty much everything.”—TheBoston Globe “This portrait of midlife crisis is almost scarily astute.”—People. 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
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. His writing has been featured in publications including The New Yorker, Harper’s, GQ, The New York Times Magazine, The O. .