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- Signed
- Hardcover
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Seller: Champion Books, Kirtland, OH, U.S.A.Champion Books
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Signed first edition. Signature location is shown clearly in the photos. Book is in excellent condition with clean, unmarked pages and no issues. Binding is tight and square. No missing, loose, or damaged pages. Dust jacket and covers are clean and well preserved. This book has been professionally stored in a smoke-free environment. Photos show the exact copy for sale, including the signature and edition statement. An excellent copy, suitable for collectors or readers. Carefully packed and shipped promptly. Please review photos carefully, as they are part of the description. International shipping available to select countries.
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- Title
- The Altruists: A Novel
- Author
- Ridker, Andrew
- Publisher
- Viking
- Publication year
- 2019
- Condition
- Very Good
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0525522719
- ISBN 13
- 9780525522713
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Dimensions
- 6.24 inches width by 9.28 inches height by 1.07 inches depth
"[An] intelligent, funny, and remarkably assured first novel. . . . [Andrew Ridker establishes] himself as a big, promising talent. . . . Hilarious. . . . Astute and highly entertaining. . . . Outstanding."
--The New York Times Book Review
"With humor and warmth, Ridker explores the meaning of family and its inevitable baggage. . . . A relatable, unforgettable view of regular people making mistakes and somehow finding their way back to each other."
--People (Book of the Week)
"[A] strikingly assured debut. . . . A novel that grows more complex and more uproarious by the page, culminating in an unforgettable climax."
--Entertainment Weekly (The Must List)
A Real Simple Best Book of the Year (So Far)
Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2019 by The Millions and PureWow
A vibrant and perceptive novel about a father's plot to win back his children's inheritance
Arthur Alter is in trouble. A middling professor at a Midwestern college, he can't afford his mortgage, he's exasperated his much-younger 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--memories that orbit Francine, the matriarch whose life may hold the key to keeping them together.
Spanning New York, Paris, Boston, St. Louis, and a small desert outpost in Zimbabwe, The Altruists is a darkly funny (and ultimately tender) family saga that confronts the divide between baby boomers and their millennial offspring. It's a novel about money, privilege, politics, campus culture, dating, talk therapy, rural sanitation, infidelity, kink, the American beer industry, and what it means to be a "good person."
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Champion Books
Kirtland, OH, U.S.A.
AbeBooks seller since November 8, 2025
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