Rich and Poor
A Canadian Literature, 21st Century, Fiction book. I was clearly fascinated by him, but had the strange sense that he was equally fascinated by...
Who hasn't, at one time or another, considered killing a billionaire?Following on the critical success of his novel Polyamorous Love Song (BookThug, 2014; finalist for the Fence Modern Prize in Prose and one of The Globe and Mail's 100 best books of 2014), Canadian writer and performer Jacob Wren picks up the mantle of the politically and economically disenfranchised in Rich and Poor--the story of a middle-class, immigrant pianist who has fallen on hard times, and now finds himself washing dishes to make ends meet. Wren capably balances personal reflections with real-time political events, as his protagonist awakens to the possibility of a solution to his troubles and begins to formulate a plan of attack, in which the only answer is to get rid of "the 1%." Rich and Poor is rare work of literary fiction that cuts into the psychology of politics in ways that are off-kilter, unexpected, and unnerving. In drawing comparisons to fiction that focuses on "the...
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- Pages: 181 pages
- ISBN: 9781771662383 / 1771662387
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I go to the shelf and pick out a few poetry books to take with me. A few old favorites and a few I haven't gotten to yet. As I slip the books into my carry-on, it occurs to me that there really are a lot of poems about death, that I've always read many poems about dying, but had almost never noticed them before. They were always the ones I lightly skimmed, and I thought that maybe I could start reading these poems more carefully. It was almost nothing, but it was also a decision about my life. Jacob Wren, Rich and Poor Capitalism is not the simple desire to make a profit. Capitalism is the fantasy that growth can continue at a consistent rate indefinitely. When a child is young, it cannot yet imagine being an adult, so it thinks it will keep on growing forever. The fantasy that you can grow forever is exhilarating, one of the many aspects that make children seem so alive. We live in fantasy, all of us, all of the time, to a greater or lesser extent. Jacob Wren, Rich and Poor He tells me he can't believe how bitter he has become, how sour, that all his life he had been one of the most fun, one of the happiest, one of the most joyous people anyone knew, and now he was like a crumpled piece of steel covered in rust. The way he describes himself, a 'crumpled piece of steel covered in rust,' I don't think I'll ever forget those precise words or his voice as he said them. Jacob Wren, Rich and Poor
Class-war as seen through the eyes of the billionaire and the poor would-be assassin. I don't generally like switching POV's or first person narration, but they are so well done he so I highly recommend this book. I definitely enjoyed this book. It read quickly, because of the way it's written: the story is not "fleshed out" into scenes but rather described, somewhat secondhandedly, by the two main characters. Nonetheless, it is in first person, so one gets quite a close look into the minds of both rich CEO and humble worker. The development... Rating: 4.75* of five"If you are a billionaire it is because you have done evil in the world." It's so simple, isn't it, when reduced to those terms...seems like a self-evident truth, now doesn't it? By the end of this novel, I wasn't at all sure of that.My 4-plus star review is live at Expendable Mudge Muses Aloud.
