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A hilarious novel about one man's downturn . . . from the New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins Matthew Prior quit his job to set up a website which couldn't fail. Only now he's woken up to the biggest financial crisis since the Great Crash, and it has. He's got six days to save his house. It's hard to focus when your wife's having an online affair, but there are children to think about. So when he gets hold of some high-grade dope and begins selling it at a profit, he thinks this might just be his salvation. A fabulously funny, heartfelt novel about how we can skate close to the edge of ruin - and pull back.

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Brilliantly written. Great comic scenes and original one-liners The Times A beautifully laid-back exultation of the human connections that make life worth living Metro Ecstatically funny and unusually big-hearted Financial Times Brilliant - and brilliantly funny Esquire A deliciously antic tale of an American dream gone very sour ... sharp, wide-eyed, soulful Washington Post

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Jess Walter is the author of six novels, including The Financial Lives of the Poets and The Cold Millions. Beautiful Ruins was a New York Times bestseller, and We Live in Water was one of Barack Obama's books of 2019. Jess Walter lives in Spokane, Washington with his family.

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