Jess Walter

From Jess Walter, the bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins, comes We Live in Water - a darkly funny, utterly compelling collection of stories about the American family. We Live in Water brings to vivid life a world of lost fathers and redemptive con men, of personal struggles and diminished dreams, a world marked by the wry wit and generosity of spirit that has made Jess Walter one of America's most talked-about writers. In 'Thief', a blue-collar worker turns unlikely detective to find out which of his kids is stealing from the family vacation fund. In 'We Live in Water', a lawyer returns to a corrupt North Idaho town to find the father who disappeared thirty years earlier. In 'Anything Helps', a homeless man has to 'go to cardboard' to raise enough money to buy his son the new Harry Potter book. In 'Virgo', a local newspaper editor tries to get back at his superstitious ex-girlfriend by screwing with her horoscope. The final story transforms slyly from a portrait of Walter's hometown into a moving contemplation of our times. "A ridiculously talented writer". (The New York Times). "One of my favourite young American writers". (Nick Hornby). "Darkly funny, sneakily sad, these stories are very, very good". (Publisher's Weekly). "A witty and sobering snapshot of recession-era America". (Kirkus). Jess Walter is the author of six novels, including The Financial Lives of the Poets, published by Penguin. Beautiful Ruins was a number one New York Times bestseller. We Live in Water is his first collection of short fiction. Jess Walter lives in Spokane, Washington with his family. He is currently writing for Radio 4.

Tiempo atrás Matt Prior, un modesto columnista financiero, apostó todo lo que tenía a una idea quijotesca: crear un sitio de Internet dedicado al periodismo económico en forma de poesía. Ahora, sin

Corre el otoño de 1980. Faltan ocho días para unas elecciones presidenciales que enfrentan al vilipendiado Jimmy Carter contra un Ronald Reagan demasiado optimista. En su casa de Spokane, Washington, Vince Camden despierta a las dos de la madrugada, se guarda en el bolsillo su alijo semanal de tarjetas de credito robadas y se sienta a jugar una partida de poquer con sus amigotes. Despues tendra que ir a trabajar espolvoreando rosquillas, donde permanece por obra y gracia del programa de proteccion de testigos. Asi es su nueva vida: el negocio, la marihuana y una novia neurotica que sueña con prosperar como agente inmobiliario mientras baila en la barra americana. Cuando un rostro familiar aparece en la ciudad, Vince Camden se las tendra que ver con policias obsesivos, politicos ambiciosos y gansteres... Y todo para acabar comprobando que la unica salvacion posible se encuentra en una urna electoral. Jess Walter posee un extraño talento a la hora de encontrar las emociones y las vivencias en personajes que se encuentran a uno y otro lado de la ley. Ciudadano Vince narra una historia tan original como enigmatica, una narracion irrepetible acerca del precio de la libertad y la imposibilidad de la redencion.

Small-time finance journalist Matthew Prior gave up his day-job and gambled everything on setting up a website offering financial advice ... in witty blank verse. Then he woke up one day in the middle of the worst crisis since the 30s with no business, a shedload of debt, a lot of guilt and a great deal of suspicion about his wife who spends her time flirting online with her childhood sweetheart - a real guy with a real, man''s job. So when Matt''s offered some high-grade dope, and finds he can sell a little bit of it on, he thinks that maybe this is where the future lies... As Matt battles to save his marriage, his children''s future and his sanity too, The Financial Lives of the Poets becomes a hugely funny but heartfelt novel about how we can reach the edge of ruin - and pull back.

Corre el otoño de 1980. Faltan ocho días para unas elecciones presidenciales que enfrentan al vilipendiado Jimmy Carter contra un Ronald Reagan demasiado optimista. En su casa de Spokane, Washington, Vince Camden despierta a las dos de la madrugada, se guarda en el bolsillo su alijo semanal de tarjetas de credito robadas y se sienta a jugar una partida de poquer con sus amigotes. Despues tendra que ir a trabajar espolvoreando rosquillas, donde permanece por obra y gracia del programa de proteccion de testigos. Asi es su nueva vida: el negocio, la marihuana y una novia neurotica que sueña con prosperar como agente inmobiliario mientras baila en la barra americana. Cuando un rostro familiar aparece en la ciudad, Vince Camden se las tendra que ver con policias obsesivos, politicos ambiciosos y gansteres... Y todo para acabar comprobando que la unica salvacion posible se encuentra en una urna electoral.

Matt Prior is about to lose his job, his house, his wife, and maybe his sanity too. Financial journalist Matt quit his job to set up a website which couldnt fail. Only now hes woken up to the biggest crisis since the Great Crash, and it has. Hes got six days to save his house.

In this dazzling collection of stories, a son must repeatedly come out to his senile father while looking for a place that will care for the old man. An elderly couple confronts the note-taking fiction writer eavesdropping on their conversation. A famous actor in recovery has a one-night stand with the worlds most surprising film critic. And in the beautifully romantic title story, a shy twenty-one-year-old studying Latin in Rome during "the year of my reinvention" finds himself face-to-face with the gorgeous Italian actress of his adolescent dreams.Funny, poignant, and redemptive, this collection takes the reader to Italy and Idaho, Washington and Mississippi. With his signature wit and bighearted approach to the darkest parts of humanity, Walter tackles the modern condition with a timeless touch.

A collection of the years best mystery and suspense short fiction selected by #1 New York Times bestselling author and guest editor Jess Walter and series editor Steph Cha.

Spokane, Washington, a bustling city split by hurtling white-water falls. One afternoon a young woman's body is found buried in a riverside park - then a second body, then a third. Before the week is out Caroline Mabry is plunged into a full-blown hunt for a serial murderer her colleagues have nicknamed the Southbank Strangler.| | As Caroline and her troubled mentor, Alan Dupree, bridle under an investigation overrun by headline-grabbing "specialists" and bean-counting statisticians. As they close in on a suspect Caroline and Alan confront dark truths about the killer-hunting industry - and about their attraction to each other. And in the end they come face-to-face with an evil very different - and far more alarming - than the one they thought they were chasing.

Vince's real name is Marty Hagen, a career criminal from New Jersey, given a new identity and a job working in a donut shop in a sleepy Northwest city by the Witness Protection Program. Since he testified against the hoods he used to run with, his rights have been restored - including his right to vote, something he's never done. For Vince - who has fallen in love with a beautiful and politically engaged customer in the shop - voting in the Presidential election becomes the most important thing in his life. America is at a point of change (who is this Ronald Regan?) and Vince begins to feel perhaps even a guy like him can change. Perhaps he can move beyond the credit-card scam he still operates, and start to contribute to society.But while Vince is busy remaking himself, his past arrives in town in the form of a contract killer that he recognises from his old life. Has he come to kill Vince? Or was he hired by local gangsters, trying to muscle him out of his rackets?With three days left until the election, Vince must duck crooks, cops and an implacable killer, as he tries to figure out a way to save himself, and his dreams.

Ano de 1962. Em um trecho rochoso do litoralitaliano, um jovem dono de hotel olha para as águas incandescentes do mar da Ligúria e vê uma aparição: uma belamulher se aproximando em um barco. Ele entã

Una storia familiare, sullo sfondo dellAmerica di Trump, scritta con ironia e uno stile avvincente.Rhys Kinnick ha scelto lesilio: ha trascorso sette anni in un capanno tra i boschi, leggendo piu di novecento libri e cercando di dimenticare, lontano da un mondo che non riconosce piu. Ma quando i suoi nipoti, Leah e Asher, bussano alla sua porta con una lettera disperata della madre Bethany, il passato irrompe con violenza nella sua solitudine e lui scopre di avere ancora qualcosa per cui vale la pena combattere.Finalista allAspen Words Literary PrizeMiglior libro dellanno. VogueLibro da leggere assolutamente per lestate.Oprahs Book Club, Good Morning America, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Cbs Sunday, Elle, Esquire, Lit Hub, Chicago Tribune, Huffington Post, BuzzFeed e Minnesota Star Tribune Quello che resta e una meraviglia. Tom Perrotta

Considerada una de las sorpresas literarias,Benditas ruinas es la novela definitiva que retrata la época -dorada y no tan dorada- de la industria del cine en Hollywood.Más de cincuenta semanas en la listad de los mas vendidos del New York Times.Abril de 1962. Dee Moray, una bella actriz estadounidense de veintidos años, llega en barco, misteriosamente sola, al muelle de Porto Vergogna, al sur de Genova. Alli decide hospedarse en el pequeño hotel que regenta Pasquale, el no menos joven heredero de una modesta familia de restauradores italianos, donde conocera a Alvis Bender, un novelista de mediana edad de cierto prestigio en los circulos literarios norteamericanos.Dee huye tras un inesperado embarazo que la ha obligado a ausentarse de la que ha sido su gran oportunidad en el mundo del cine: el rodaje de la superproduccionCleopatra, de Joseph L. Mankiewicz, la pelicula mas cara de la historia, con Elizabeth Taylor y Richard Burton, en la que Dee iba tener un papel secundario de peso.Sin embargo, su presencia comienza a ser peligrosa para la estabilidad del rodaje, hasta el punto que decide dejarlo todo y marchar a Italia,condicionando irremisiblemente su vida y acercandose a esas ruinas que solo pueden ser desgastadas por aquello ...