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- October 11, 2002
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Byline: GEORGIA METCALFE
The Rich Part Of Life by Jim Kokoris (Scribner, pound sterling6.99) THE intriguing premise of this excellent first novel is an ordinary family who becomes suddenly, bottomlessly rich.
Narrated with humour and tenderness by 12-year-old Teddy, this is the story of Theo Pappas, a mild academic obsessed with the American Civil War.
Still grieving for his dead wife, he chooses a lottery ticket with her favourite numbers and scoops the big one, a cool 190 million dollars.
Unsurprisingly, a whole raft of friends, relations and sleaze merchants start oozing out of the woodwork, hands outstretched.
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