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'Who is Rich? Is a tantalizing novel - acute and smart and stark,
but mostly it's unrelentingly funny about a large number of very
inappropriate things. It's one of those rare books: you open it,
then you're up all night. I was' Richard Ford 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 O'Donnell. 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 warped 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 humour 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.
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