# The Altruists

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- Book: [The Altruists](https://www.bookquiver.com/andrew-ridker/the-altruists) ([The Altruists.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/andrew-ridker/the-altruists.md))
- Authors: [Andrew Ridker](https://www.bookquiver.com/andrew-ridker)
- Publisher: Vintage Digital
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-7354-979-1
- Published: 2019-03-07
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

'Reading Andrew Ridker’s debut novel, you soon realise you’re in the presence of a new talent.' The Times Arthur Alter is in trouble. A middling professor at a Midwestern college, he can't afford his mortgage, he's exasperated his new 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 are Ethan, an anxious recluse living off his mother's money on a choice plot of Brooklyn real estate; and Maggie, a would-be do-gooder trying to fashion herself a noble life of self-imposed poverty. On the verge of losing the family home, Arthur invites his children back to St. Louis under the guise of a reconciliation. But in doing so, he unwittingly unleashes a Pandora's Box of age-old resentments and long-buried memories.