JACOB WREN makes literature, performances, and exhibitions. His
books include Revenge Fantasies of the Politically Dispossessed;
Polyamorous Love Song (finalist for the Fence Modern Prize in Prose
and a Globe and Mail best book of 2014); Rich and Poor (finalist
for the Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction and a Globe and
Mail best book of 2016); and Authenticity is a Feeling. He is
artistic co-director of the Montreal-based interdisciplinary group
PME-ART. Wren lives in Montreal.
"As with Wren's previous work, Rich and Poor is art in resistance,
a work that dares to remind us of our capacity for revolutionary
love despite the prevailing economic system's structural violence."
--Jade Colbert, The Globe and Mail
"Wren's new novel, Rich and Poor, is more than a critique of
capitalism and profit-obsessed society. It's a parable examining
corporate culture - the way it makes us calculating, unscrupulous
and ultimately disposable." --The Toronto Star
"Rich and Poor is a populist parable for our polarized times."
--Ian McGillis, Montreal Gazette
"Stoic yet provocative, Rich and Poor plunges the reader into a
deep psychology of activism, politics, business, and how they all
mesh together." --Largehearted Boy
"Rich and Poor is a timely and well-considered story. There are
plenty of surprising moments....as well as real insights into
issues of wealth inequality that so often dominate the headlines."
--Mark Sampson, Quill and Quire
"The dream of a Marxist revolution is alive and well in Rich and
Poor." --Dan Twerdochlib, The Winnipeg Review
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