Have you ever wondered why life seems so complicated, so exhausting, so fattening, and yet so pointless and idiotic? It's all part of the Potlatch.
To Alice Coggins, the 24-year-old daughter of a South Philadelphia scam artist, everything looks like a racket: endless serflike internships, student loans that can never be repaid, high-minded charities run by swindlers for the benefit of rich donors. Things only get worse when she meets Andrew Ogleby, a scion of blue-bloods who is engaged to a bulimic pet-food heiress he can't bring himself to marry.
As their Cinderella romance unfolds, Alice and Andrew must battle their families, the mob, and most of all the ubiquitous "Potlatch": a vast conspiracy of conspicuous waste directed by the powers that be to keep the populace -- and especially the young people -- from even thinking about doing anything useful.
"Exceptionally well written, funny, ironic, and with a touch of being iconoclastic in attitude and insight, Bruce Hartman's Potlatch is an original and unfailingly entertaining read from cover to cover." --- Midwest Book Review
"Bruce Hartman does to contemporary fiction what Douglas Adams did to Science Fiction and Terry Pratchett did to Fantasy... Hartman is a master of satire and with Potlatch he really raises the bar." - Amazon reviewer Donnie Burgess
"Get ready for a hilarious ride in Potlatch... One of the most amusing reads ever to be published.’ -- Lisa McCombs for Readers’ Favorite Book Reviews.
Genre: General Fiction
To Alice Coggins, the 24-year-old daughter of a South Philadelphia scam artist, everything looks like a racket: endless serflike internships, student loans that can never be repaid, high-minded charities run by swindlers for the benefit of rich donors. Things only get worse when she meets Andrew Ogleby, a scion of blue-bloods who is engaged to a bulimic pet-food heiress he can't bring himself to marry.
As their Cinderella romance unfolds, Alice and Andrew must battle their families, the mob, and most of all the ubiquitous "Potlatch": a vast conspiracy of conspicuous waste directed by the powers that be to keep the populace -- and especially the young people -- from even thinking about doing anything useful.
"Exceptionally well written, funny, ironic, and with a touch of being iconoclastic in attitude and insight, Bruce Hartman's Potlatch is an original and unfailingly entertaining read from cover to cover." --- Midwest Book Review
"Bruce Hartman does to contemporary fiction what Douglas Adams did to Science Fiction and Terry Pratchett did to Fantasy... Hartman is a master of satire and with Potlatch he really raises the bar." - Amazon reviewer Donnie Burgess
"Get ready for a hilarious ride in Potlatch... One of the most amusing reads ever to be published.’ -- Lisa McCombs for Readers’ Favorite Book Reviews.
Genre: General Fiction
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