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Synopsis
Chris Jones, disillusioned with the American job scene, welcomes the opportunity to work for an ad agency in London. An African-American from inner-city Philadelphia, he finds it liberating to be in placid London--at first. Then troubles surface, including a difficult boss and an over-materialistic girlfriend, and, suddenly, he's jobless again. He returns home, where he gets his old life back and, unsatisfactory though it is, finds he can cope with it better than before.
| Size | | Length: | 214 pages | | Height: | 9.3 in | | Width: | 6.3 in | | Thickness: | 1.0 in | | Weight: | 17.6 oz |
Publisher's Notes
First Line: "Me: poor and broke, alone, thirty-one-years-old and only just finishing as an undergrad at a third-rate Pennsylvania state college, no work experience except comforting my mom before she passed."
Industry Reviews
"Johnson's writing is uneven....But he gets his story told and his characters are real in what, on balance, ends up as a strong debut."
Kirkus Reviews (07/15/2000)
"[A] quixotic but strangely appealing new novel....Stylistically uneven, Johnson's prose expends energy on tangential themes and events and leaves holes in narrative logic....But it's a fresh, original and stylish coming-of-age work that avoids most of the clichés of the genre."
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