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Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 1435282388
ISBN-13: 9781435282384
May 2008
Publisher: Paw Prints
3382 pages
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Language: English |
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Synopsis
The author of JENNIFER GOVERNMENT captures, in frighteningly funny fashion and dead-on detail, the zeitgeist of the corporate cube farm. Stephen Jones, a freshly minted business graduate, takes his first job as a rep in Training Sales at Zephyr Holdings. Jones has some difficulty in adjusting to the constant low-grade paranoia; the fierce possessiveness over small perks like doughnuts, parking spaces, and coat hooks; the recursive bureaucracy; and most important, the fact that none of his co-workers knows what Zephyr Holdings actually does. Determined to find answers, Jones stumbles on to the truth about Zephyr and must decide whether success is worth sacrificing his ethics for.
Publisher's Notes
First Line: "Monday morning and there's one donut less than there should be."
Industry Reviews
"A raucous black comedy about corporate management that's tailor-made for anybody who's ever gone to the office feeling like a lab rat." (starred review)
Kirkus (10/01/2005)
"[E]stablishes...[Max Barry] as one of the keenest and shrewdest minds in corporate satire. Rarely has a novelist borrowed from so many sources yet come up with something so utterly original."
Entertainment Weekly - Henry Goldblatt (01/20/2006)
"[H]ilarious....[T]he secrets and lies of corporate culture are explored with sharp, absurdist precision....COMPANY is Mr. Barry's breakout book."
(02/06/2006)
"[I]t takes an accomplished social anthropologist from the schools of both Dilbert and Evelyn Waugh to make topics like outsourcing, mission statements and H.R. come alive, breathe fire and then vomit all over your in-basket."
(12/19/2006)
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