The altruists / (Pūkete tau 186810)

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005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION
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008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION
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010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER
LC control number be2019009651
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781787331686
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781787331686
Qualifying information paperback
035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER
System control number JB23018675
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE
Original cataloging agency NJB
Language of cataloging eng
Description conventions rda
Transcribing agency NJB
082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 813/.6
Edition number 23
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Ridker, Andrew,
Relator term author.
9 (RLIN) 232534
245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title The altruists /
Statement of responsibility, etc Andrew Ridker.
264 #1 - Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice
Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture London :
Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacture Jonathan Cape, an imprint of Vintage,
Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notic [2019]
264 #4 - Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice
Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notic ©2019
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 308 pages ;
Dimensions 22 cm
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc 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 in the tradition of Jonathan Franzen and Jeffrey Eugenides, with shades of Philip Roth and Zadie Smith. 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."
650 #4 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element College teachers
Form subdivision Fiction.
9 (RLIN) 3013
650 #4 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Inheritance and succession
Form subdivision Fiction.
9 (RLIN) 627
655 #7 - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM
Genre/form data or focus term Domestic fiction.
Source of term lcgft
9 (RLIN) 185368
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA)
Source of classification or shelving scheme Dewey Decimal Classification
Koha item type Fiction
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Not Withdrawn   Dewey Decimal Classification Not Damaged   Fiction Eltham LibraryPlus Eltham LibraryPlus Fiction 26/03/2019 18 25.90 5 RIDK I2187948 11/09/2021 09/09/2021 37.00 26/03/2019 Fiction

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