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Also by Jess Walter:

So Far Gone, June 2025
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The Angel of Rome, July 2023
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The Angel of Rome, July 2022
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The Cold Millions, November 2020
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We Live In Water: Stories, February 2013
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Beautiful Ruins, June 2012
Hardcover / e-Book
The Financial Lives Of The Poets, September 2010
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The Zero, September 2006
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Citizen Vince, April 2005
Hardcover

THE FINANCIAL LIVES OF THE POETS
By: Jess Walter

HarperCollins
September 2010
On Sale: September 14, 2010
304 pages
ISBN: 0061916056
EAN: 9780061916052
Paperback
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Fiction Family Life

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 wife's 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 biggest—and most misbegotten—plan yet.

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