Who hasn’t, at one time or another, considered killing a billionaire?Rich and Poor is a novel of a man who washes dishes for a living and decides to kill a billionaire as a political act. It is literature as political theory and theory as pure literary pleasure—a spiralling, fast-paced parable of joyous, overly self-aware, mischievous class warfare.As his plan proceeds and becomes more feasible, the story cuts back and forth between his and the billionaire’s perspectives, gra