MARC details
000 -LEADER |
fixed length control field |
02313cam a2200313 i 4500 |
001 - CONTROL NUMBER |
control field |
544799 |
003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER |
control field |
VCML |
005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION |
control field |
20190329102325.0 |
008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION |
fixed length control field |
180831s2019 enk e 000 1 eng |
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 |