fiction
Matt’s life is falling apart. Due to some bad business and
investment decisions, he’s on the brink of losing everything including his
wife. He ends up turning to a crazy solution to dig himself out of his
troubles.
Jess Walter is so witty. I loved his novel Beautiful Ruins
and, particularly, his writing. So I read The Financial Lives of the Poets to experience another
novel by him. This one was very different! What a crazy story full of humor in
the face of bad decisions and financial ruin! The writing was sometimes done as
a stream of consciousness with no periods for miles. But it worked! It felt a bit frantic but that is exactly how
Matt was feeling. I loved the
LISTS! And the poems! And the
alliterations! And the fun with words.
Walter is really a master of the English language. He also populated
these pages with wonderful characters who were so easy to visualize and
understand. But the tale being told ended
without the fun with which it started. It became a sobering cautionary tale
fairly quickly near the end. It left me feeling not as great about it because
the whole thing, while whacky and bizarre at times, ended up too real.
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