{"product_id":"book-i2qc","title":"Ways and Means","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Deadly serious in ambition, wildly entertaining in execution, \u003c\/em\u003eWays and Means\u003cem\u003e is a remarkably accomplished debut.\"\u003c\/em\u003e-\u003cstrong\u003eAnthony Marra\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eMercury Pictures Presents\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eA Constellation of Vital Phenomena\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"A work of enormous wit, humor, and passion that captures life in turbo capitalist America with compassion and grace.\"\u003c\/em\u003e-\u003cstrong\u003eGary Shteyngart\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eOur Country Friends\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eSuper Sad True Love Story\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA searing debut novel about a striving finance student, the line between ambition and greed, and the disordered politics of our era\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003eAlistair 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003eMeanwhile, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003ePropulsive, exuberant, and profoundly observed, \u003cem\u003eWays and Means\u003c\/em\u003e is an indelible, clear-eyed investigation of class and ambition, sex and art, and politics and power in twenty-first century America.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Recorded Books, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49351318208816,"sku":"BDi2qc","price":30.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":49504095502640,"sku":"ZEi2qc","price":59.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio MP3-CD","offer_id":49504095568176,"sku":"ZMi2qc","price":49.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/i2qc-cover.jpg?v=1761198731","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-i2qc","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}