{"product_id":"ways-and-means-hardcover","title":"Ways and Means - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDaniel Lefferts\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e* A Most Anticipated Book of 2024 * \u003ci\u003eThem * Debutiful * Literary Hub * Electric Literature * \u003c\/i\u003eAnd Many More! *\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA searing debut novel about a striving finance student, the line between ambition and greed, and the disordered politics of our era\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"[An] auspicious debut . . . a wildly entertaining drama of ambition and consequence.\" \u003cb\u003e--SAM SACKS, \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Deadly serious in ambition, wildly entertaining in execution, \u003ci\u003eWays and Means\u003c\/i\u003e is a remarkably accomplished debut . . . Every line of this gorgeous novel glows with Lefferts' intelligence and compassion.\" \u003cb\u003e―ANTHONY MARRA, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of \u003ci\u003eMercury Pictures Presents\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA Constellation of Vital Phenomena\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"A work of enormous wit, humor, and passion that captures life in turbo capitalist America with compassion and grace.\" \u003cb\u003e―GARY SHTEYNGART, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of \u003ci\u003eOur Country Friends\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Totally absorbing . . . Lefferts delivers \u003ci\u003eThe Great Gatsby\u003c\/i\u003e for the 21st-century: irreverent, sexy, and sharp. A major event.\" \u003cb\u003e―JESSI JEZEWSKA STEVENS, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Exhibition of Persephone Q\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Visitors \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Alistair McCabe comes to New York with a plan. Young, handsome, intelligent, and gay, he hopes to escape his Rust Belt poverty and give his mother a better life by pursuing a career in high finance. But by the spring of 2016, Alistair's plan has come undone: His fantasy banking job has eluded him, he's mired in student debt, and in his desperation he's gone to work for an enigmatic billionaire whose ambitions turn out to be far darker than Alistair could have imagined. By the time Alistair uncovers his employer's secret, his life is in danger and he's forced to go on the run. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Meanwhile, Alistair's paramours, an older couple named Mark and Elijah, must face their own moral and financial dilemmas. Mark, nearing the end of his trust fund, takes a job with his father's mobile-home empire that forces him to confront the unsavory foundations of his family's wealth, while Elijah, a failed painter, throws in his lot with an artist-provocateur whose latest project transforms the country's political chaos into a thing of alluring, amoral beauty. As the nation hurtles toward a breaking point, Alistair, Mark, and Elijah must band together to save one another and themselves. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Propulsive, exuberant, and profoundly observed, \u003ci\u003eWays and Means\u003c\/i\u003e is an indelible, clear-eyed investigation of class and ambition, sex and art, and politics and power in twenty-first century America.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDaniel Lefferts\u003c\/b\u003e was born in upstate New York and now lives in Hudson, New York. He holds an MFA from Columbia University and has taught writing at Columbia and Rutgers. \u003ci\u003eWays and Means\u003c\/i\u003e is his first novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 400\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.4 x 9.1 x 6.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 06, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51764476412192,"sku":"9781419768194","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/689abaf7f28b21332a14cb8ff7d81000.webp?v=1780249459","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/ways-and-means-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}