Jess Walter is the author of six novels, including The Financial Lives of the Poets and The Cold Millions. Beautiful Ruins was a New York Times bestseller, and We Live in Water was one of Barack Obama's books of 2019. Jess Walter lives in Spokane, Washington with his family.
A riotous, propulsive adventure story, packed with captivating
characters
*Daily Mail*
A brilliantly multifaceted panorama of early 20th-century America .
. . Walter is a writer whose work deserves a wide readership
*Sunday Times*
A beautiful, lyric hymn to the power of social unrest in American
history. It's funny and harrowing, sweet and violent, innocent and
experienced
*Anthony Doerr, author of All the Light We Cannot See*
A work of irresistible characters, harrowing adventures and
rip-roaring fun ... bursting with a dazzling range of outrageous
characters. One of the most captivating novels of the year
*Washington Post*
Reminiscent of the stylistic tricks of F Scott Fitzgerald...With
its rebellion against inequality and debates about capitalism,
there are clear echoes from 1909 to the US today. Incitement to
riot, dreadfully topical since the assault on the Capitol last
month, also gets a look in. But The Cold Millions offers more: a
study of individuals living, willingly or unwillingly, through
tumult.
*FT*
Colourful and punchy
*The Times*
Walter is a class act...the fierce struggle for free speech and
workers' rights is genuinely stirring.
*Mail on Sunday*
A timely and poetic read that vividly depicts the American melting
pot at its most unequal and volatile . . . a compelling portrait of
America at the dawn of the 20th Century
*Sunday Express*
Expansive, beguiling . . . A thrilling yarn that simultaneously
underscores the cost of progress and celebrates the American
spirit
*O Magazine*
It's a tremendous work, a vivid, propulsive, historical novel with
a politically explosive backdrop that reverberates through our
own
*USA Today*
Jess Walter is a superb storyteller. As polished and hard as a
diamond, The Cold Millions reminds us of America's tempestuous past
and suggests that all this is anything but past
*Boston Globe*
Walter marshals a motley, fascinating cast of characters so finely
drawn that they lift from the page. I haven't encountered a more
satisfying and moving novel about the struggle for workers' rights
in America
*San Francisco Chronicle*
A layered, multi-character panorama
*Vogue*
It's often said that a novel contains the world; Walter brings new
meaning to this phrase, peopling The Cold Millions with vaudeville
stars, hobos, suffragists, tycoons, union agitators, policemen, and
dozens of other vibrant characters. Warm and deeply humane, this
transporting novel is a staggering achievement from a landmark
writer
*Esquire*
The fact that the same author has written books as wildly different
and all as transporting as The Zero, The Financial Lives of the
Poets, Beautiful Ruins, and now this latest tour de force is
testimony to Walter's protean storytelling power and astounding
ability to set a scene, any scene . . . We have heard that Jess
Walter writes nonstop: Seven days a week, 365 days a year. Please,
never stop.
*Kirkus Reviews, starred review*
Superb.... a splendid postmodern rendition of the social realist
novels of the 1930s by Henry Roth, John Steinbeck, and John Dos
Passos, updated with strong female characters and executed with
pristine prose. This could well be Walter's best work yet.
*Publishers Weekly, starred review*
A great tapestry of busy-ness . . . Walter's descriptive passage
are marvellous
*Sunday Telegraph*
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