In his riotous debut collection, Ant Farm, Simon Rich found humor in some of life’s most desperate situations. Cunningly playful and wickedly funny, Elliot Allagash is a tale about all of the incredible things that money can buy, and the one or two things that it can t. For an Allagash victory is dishonorable at its best, and ruinous at its worst. Yet despite the glow of newfound popularity, Seymour feels increasingly uneasy with Elliot s wily designs. With Elliot as his diabolical strategist and investor, Seymour scores a spot on the basketball team, becomes class president, and ruthlessly destroys his enemies. An unlikely friendship develops between the two loners as Elliot introduces Seymour to new concepts, like power, sabotage, and vengeance. Bitter and bored, Elliot decides to amuse himself by taking up a challenging and expensive new hobby: transforming Seymour into the most popular student in the school. But despite his best efforts, he can t get himself thrown out of Glendale his father has simply donated too much money. Elliot s rampant delinquency has already gotten him expelled from dozens of prep schools around the country. But Seymour s solitary existence comes to a swift end when he meets the new transfer student: Elliot Allagash, evil heir of America s largest fortune. He s painfully shy, physically inept, and his new nick name, chunk style, is in danger of entering common usage. Seymour Herson is the least popular student at Glendale, a private school in Manhattan. Now comes Rich’s rollicking debut novel, which explores the strangest, most twisted, and comically fraught terrain of them all: high school. Simon Rich dazzled readers with his absurdist sense of humor in his hilarious collections Ant Farm and Free Range Chickens.
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