The imperfectionists
Subtitle: a novel
By: Tom Rachman
Publisher: Anchor Canada
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 281
ISBN-13: 9780385671033
Copyright date: 2010
Subjects: Reporters and reporting; Fiction; Newspaper publishing; Newspaper editors; English newspapers
Description: "With the war in Iraq, the climate in meltdown and bin Laden still in hiding, the staff of an English-language newspaper in Rome has plenty to fill its columns. But its journalists are far more concerned with their own personal affairs. A desperate aging correspondent in Paris wrestles with his temptation to use his estranged son to stretch a story. A lonesome newspaper executive falls for the man she just fired. And an eccentric publisher pays less attention to his struggling paper than to his magnificent basset hound, Schopenhauer"--Book cover.
Notes: Includes a reader's guide, with a conversation between Malcolm Gladwell and Tom Rachman, plus questions for discussion.