The Altruists

Andrew Ridker

earliest edition we have, 2019 Viking, 2019 hardcover 320 pages

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...

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Altruists edition · 2020 · Penguin Random House · 9781784707545
Altruists edition · 2020 · Penguin Publishing Group · 336 pages · 9780525522737
The Altruists hardcover · 2019 · Viking · 320 pages · 9780525522713
Altruists edition · 2019 · Penguin Random House · 320 pages · 9781787331686
Altruists edition · 2019 · Penguin Random House · 320 pages · 9781787330450
Altruists edition · 2019 · Thorndike Press · 9781432867980
Altruists edition · 2019 · Penguin Random House · 9781473549791

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