Jess Walter

Corre el otoño de 1980. Faltan ocho días para unas elecciones presidenciales que enfrentan al vilipendiado Jimmy Carter contra un Ronald Reagan demasiado optimista. En su casa de Spokane, Washington, Vince Camden despierta a las dos de la madrugada, se guarda en el bolsillo su alijo semanal de tarjetas de credito robadas y se sienta a jugar una partida de poquer con sus amigotes. Despues tendra que ir a trabajar espolvoreando rosquillas, donde permanece por obra y gracia del programa de proteccion de testigos. Asi es su nueva vida: el negocio, la marihuana y una novia neurotica que sueña con prosperar como agente inmobiliario mientras baila en la barra americana. Cuando un rostro familiar aparece en la ciudad, Vince Camden se las tendra que ver con policias obsesivos, politicos ambiciosos y gansteres... Y todo para acabar comprobando que la unica salvacion posible se encuentra en una urna electoral. Jess Walter posee un extraño talento a la hora de encontrar las emociones y las vivencias en personajes que se encuentran a uno y otro lado de la ley. Ciudadano Vince narra una historia tan original como enigmatica, una narracion irrepetible acerca del precio de la libertad y la imposibilidad de la redencion.

Small-time finance journalist Matthew Prior gave up his day-job and gambled everything on setting up a website offering financial advice ... in witty blank verse. Then he woke up one day in the middle of the worst crisis since the 30s with no business, a shedload of debt, a lot of guilt and a great deal of suspicion about his wife who spends her time flirting online with her childhood sweetheart - a real guy with a real, man''s job. So when Matt''s offered some high-grade dope, and finds he can sell a little bit of it on, he thinks that maybe this is where the future lies... As Matt battles to save his marriage, his children''s future and his sanity too, The Financial Lives of the Poets becomes a hugely funny but heartfelt novel about how we can reach the edge of ruin - and pull back.

Tiempo atrás Matt Prior, un modesto columnista financiero, apostó todo lo que tenía a una idea quijotesca: crear un sitio de Internet dedicado al periodismo económico en forma de poesía. Ahora, sin

From Jess Walter, the bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins, comes We Live in Water - a darkly funny, utterly compelling collection of stories about the American family. We Live in Water brings to vivid life a world of lost fathers and redemptive con men, of personal struggles and diminished dreams, a world marked by the wry wit and generosity of spirit that has made Jess Walter one of America's most talked-about writers. In 'Thief', a blue-collar worker turns unlikely detective to find out which of his kids is stealing from the family vacation fund. In 'We Live in Water', a lawyer returns to a corrupt North Idaho town to find the father who disappeared thirty years earlier. In 'Anything Helps', a homeless man has to 'go to cardboard' to raise enough money to buy his son the new Harry Potter book. In 'Virgo', a local newspaper editor tries to get back at his superstitious ex-girlfriend by screwing with her horoscope. The final story transforms slyly from a portrait of Walter's hometown into a moving contemplation of our times. "A ridiculously talented writer". (The New York Times). "One of my favourite young American writers". (Nick Hornby). "Darkly funny, sneakily sad, these stories are very, very good". (Publisher's Weekly). "A witty and sobering snapshot of recession-era America". (Kirkus). Jess Walter is the author of six novels, including The Financial Lives of the Poets, published by Penguin. Beautiful Ruins was a number one New York Times bestseller. We Live in Water is his first collection of short fiction. Jess Walter lives in Spokane, Washington with his family. He is currently writing for Radio 4.

Spokane, Washington, a bustling city split by hurtling white-water falls. One afternoon a young woman's body is found buried in a riverside park - then a second body, then a third. Before the week is out Caroline Mabry is plunged into a full-blown hunt for a serial murderer her colleagues have nicknamed the Southbank Strangler.| | As Caroline and her troubled mentor, Alan Dupree, bridle under an investigation overrun by headline-grabbing "specialists" and bean-counting statisticians. As they close in on a suspect Caroline and Alan confront dark truths about the killer-hunting industry - and about their attraction to each other. And in the end they come face-to-face with an evil very different - and far more alarming - than the one they thought they were chasing.

In this dazzling collection of stories, a son must repeatedly come out to his senile father while looking for a place that will care for the old man. An elderly couple confronts the note-taking fiction writer eavesdropping on their conversation. A famous actor in recovery has a one-night stand with the worlds most surprising film critic. And in the beautifully romantic title story, a shy twenty-one-year-old studying Latin in Rome during "the year of my reinvention" finds himself face-to-face with the gorgeous Italian actress of his adolescent dreams.Funny, poignant, and redemptive, this collection takes the reader to Italy and Idaho, Washington and Mississippi. With his signature wit and bighearted approach to the darkest parts of humanity, Walter tackles the modern condition with a timeless touch.

Matt Prior is about to lose his job, his house, his wife, and maybe his sanity too. Financial journalist Matt quit his job to set up a website which couldnt fail. Only now hes woken up to the biggest crisis since the Great Crash, and it has. Hes got six days to save his house.

A collection of the years best mystery and suspense short fiction selected by #1 New York Times bestselling author and guest editor Jess Walter and series editor Steph Cha.

Vince's real name is Marty Hagen, a career criminal from New Jersey, given a new identity and a job working in a donut shop in a sleepy Northwest city by the Witness Protection Program. Since he testified against the hoods he used to run with, his rights have been restored - including his right to vote, something he's never done. For Vince - who has fallen in love with a beautiful and politically engaged customer in the shop - voting in the Presidential election becomes the most important thing in his life. America is at a point of change (who is this Ronald Regan?) and Vince begins to feel perhaps even a guy like him can change. Perhaps he can move beyond the credit-card scam he still operates, and start to contribute to society.But while Vince is busy remaking himself, his past arrives in town in the form of a contract killer that he recognises from his old life. Has he come to kill Vince? Or was he hired by local gangsters, trying to muscle him out of his rackets?With three days left until the election, Vince must duck crooks, cops and an implacable killer, as he tries to figure out a way to save himself, and his dreams.

Corre el otoño de 1980. Faltan ocho días para unas elecciones presidenciales que enfrentan al vilipendiado Jimmy Carter contra un Ronald Reagan demasiado optimista. En su casa de Spokane, Washington, Vince Camden despierta a las dos de la madrugada, se guarda en el bolsillo su alijo semanal de tarjetas de credito robadas y se sienta a jugar una partida de poquer con sus amigotes. Despues tendra que ir a trabajar espolvoreando rosquillas, donde permanece por obra y gracia del programa de proteccion de testigos. Asi es su nueva vida: el negocio, la marihuana y una novia neurotica que sueña con prosperar como agente inmobiliario mientras baila en la barra americana. Cuando un rostro familiar aparece en la ciudad, Vince Camden se las tendra que ver con policias obsesivos, politicos ambiciosos y gansteres... Y todo para acabar comprobando que la unica salvacion posible se encuentra en una urna electoral.

Una storia familiare, sullo sfondo dellAmerica di Trump, scritta con ironia e uno stile avvincente.Rhys Kinnick ha scelto lesilio: ha trascorso sette anni in un capanno tra i boschi, leggendo piu di novecento libri e cercando di dimenticare, lontano da un mondo che non riconosce piu. Ma quando i suoi nipoti, Leah e Asher, bussano alla sua porta con una lettera disperata della madre Bethany, il passato irrompe con violenza nella sua solitudine e lui scopre di avere ancora qualcosa per cui vale la pena combattere.Finalista allAspen Words Literary PrizeMiglior libro dellanno. VogueLibro da leggere assolutamente per lestate.Oprahs Book Club, Good Morning America, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Cbs Sunday, Elle, Esquire, Lit Hub, Chicago Tribune, Huffington Post, BuzzFeed e Minnesota Star Tribune Quello che resta e una meraviglia. Tom Perrotta

One of the most captivating novels of the year. Washington Post NATIONAL BESTSELLER A Library Reads Pick An Indie Next Pick A Best Book of the Year: Bloomberg | Boston Globe | Chicago Public Library | Chicago Tribune | Esquire | Kirkus | New York Public Library | New York Times Book Review (Historical Fiction) | NPRs Fresh Air | O Magazine | Washington Post | Publishers Weekly | Seattle Times | USA Today From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins comes another literary miracle (NPR)a propulsive, richly entertaining novel about two brothers swept up in the turbulent class warfare of the early twentieth century.An intimate story of brotherhood, love, sacrifice, and betrayal set against the panoramic backdrop of an early twentieth-century America that eerily echoes our own time, The Cold Millions offers a kaleidoscopic portrait of a nation grappling with the chasm between rich and poor, between harsh realities and simple dreams.The Dolans live by their wits, jumping freight trains and lining up for day work at crooked job agencies. While sixteen-year-old Rye yearns for a steady job and a home, his older brother, Gig, dreams of a better world, fighting alongside other union men for fair pay and decent treatment. Enter Ursula the Great, a vaudeville singer who performs with a live cougar and introduces the brothers to a far more dangerous creature: a mining magnate determined to keep his wealth and his hold on Ursula.Dubious of Gigs idealism, Rye finds himself drawn to a fearless nineteen-year-old activist and feminist named Elizabeth Gurley Flynn. But a storm is coming, threatening to overwhelm them all, and Rye will be forced to decide where he stands. Is it enough to win the occasional battle, even if you cannot win the war?Featuring an unforgettable cast of cops and tramps, suffragists and socialists, madams and murderers, The Cold Millions is a tour de force from a writer who has planted himself firmly in the first rank of American authors (Boston Globe).

A New York Times Notable Book of the YearRiveting. . . . Without ever taking the easy way out, the book explores the battle of good vs. evil on very human terms. Washington Post Book WorldDark in mood and rich in character, Over Tumbled Graves by #1 New York Times bestselling authorJess Walter is that rare thriller that manages to be at once viscerally gripping and deeply provocativeDuring a routine drug bust, on a narrow bridge over white-water falls in the center of town, Spokane detective Caroline Mabry finds herself face-to-face with a brutal murderer. Within hours, the body of a young prostitute is found on the riverbank nearby. What follows confronts our fascination with pathology and murder and stares it down, as Caroline and her cynical partner, Alan Dupreethrown headlong into the search for a serial murderer who communicates by killing womenuncover some hard truths about their profession . . . and each other.Rich with the darkly muted colors of the Pacific Northwest skies, Over Tumbled Graves established Jess Walter as a novelist of extraordinary emotional depth and dimension.

National Book Award Finalist "Political satire at its best: scathing, funny, dark. Grade: A. Entertainment WeeklyThe breakout novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins, Jess Walter: In the wake of a devastating terrorist attack, one man struggles to make sense of his world, even as the world tries to make use of himBrian Remy has no idea how he got here. Its been only five days since terrorists attacked his city, and Remy is experiencing gaps in his lifeas if he were a stone being skipped across water. He has a self-inflicted gunshot wound that he doesnt remember inflicting. His son wears a black armband and refuses to acknowledge that Remy is still alive. He seems to be going blind. He has a beautiful new girlfriend whose name he doesnt know. And his old partner in the police department, who may well be the only person crazier than Remy, has just gotten his picture on a box of First Responder cereal.And these are the good things in Brian Remys life. While smoke still hangs over the city, Remy is recruited by a mysterious government agency that is assigned to gather all of the paper that was scattered in the attacks. As he slowly begins to realize that hes working for a shadowy intelligence operation, Remy stumbles across a dangerous plot, and with the world threatening to boil over in violence and betrayal, he realizes that hes got to track down the most elusive target of them allhimself. And the only way to do that is to return to that place where everything started falling apart.In the tradition of Catch-22, The Manchurian Candidate, and the novels of Ian McEwan, comes this extraordinary story of searing humor and sublime horror, of blindness, bewilderment, and that achingly familiar feeling that the world has suddenly stopped making sense.

Darkly funny, surprisingly tender . . . witheringly dead-on. Los Angeles TimesNamed one of the years best novels by: Time Salon.com Los Angeles Times NPR/Fresh Air New West Kansas City Star St. Louis Post-DispatchA comic and heartfelt novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins and Cold Millions about how we get to the edge of ruinand how we begin to make our way back.What happens when small-time reporter Matthew Prior quits his job to gamble everything on a quixotic notion: a Web site devoted to financial journalism in the form of blank verse?Before long, he wakes up to find himself jobless, hobbled with debt, spying on his wifes online flirtation, and six days away from losing his home. . . . Until, one night on a desperate two a.m. run to 7-Eleven, he falls in with some local stoners, and they end up hatching the biggestand most misbegottenplan yet.

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins and The Cold Millions comes a stunning collection about those moments when everything changesfor the better, for the worse, for the outrageousas a diverse cast of characters bounces from Italy to Idaho, questioning their roles in life and finding inspiration in the unlikeliest places.We all live like were famous now, curating our social media presences, performing our identities, withholding those parts of ourselves we dont want others to see. In this riveting collection of stories from acclaimed author Jess Walter, a teenage girl tries to live up to the image of her beautiful, missing mother. An elderly couple confronts the fiction writer eavesdropping on their conversation. A son must repeatedly come out to his senile father while looking for a place to care for the old man. A famous actor in recovery has a one-night stand with the worlds most surprising film critic. And in the romantic title story, a shy twenty-one-year-old studying Latin in Rome during the year of my reinvention finds himself face-to-face with the Italian actress of his adolescent dreams.Funny, poignant, and redemptive, this collection of short fiction offers a dazzling range of voices, backdrops, and situations. With his signature wit and bighearted approach to the darkest parts of humanity, Walter tackles the modern condition with a timeless touch, once again solidifying his place in the contemporary canon as one of our most gifted builders of fictional worlds (Esquire).

ONE OF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMAS FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2019From the New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins, the first collection of short fiction from Jess Waltera suite of diverse and searching stories about personal struggle and diminished dreams, all of them marked by the wry wit, keen eye, and generosity of spirit that has made him a bookseller and reader favoriteThese twelve storiespublished over the last five years in Harpers, The Best American Short Stories, McSweeneys, Playboy, and other publicationsveer from comic tales of love to social satire to suspenseful crime fiction, from hip Portland to once-hip Seattle to never-hip Spokane, from a condemned casino in Las Vegas to a bottomless lake in the dark woods of Idaho. This is a world of lost fathers and redemptive conmen, of meth tweakers on desperate odysseys and men committing suicide by fishing.We Live in Water is a darkly comic, heartfelt collection of stories from a ridiculously talented writer (New York Times), one of the freshest voices in American literature (Dallas Morning News).