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In his satire set in a future world, Hack Nike works for a marketing firm that talks him into killing teenagers as part of an ad campaign for sneakers. When he tries to enlist the police on his side, he becomes the target of Jennifer Government, an agent who is determined to eliminate Hack's boss and possibly Hack himself. A New York Times Notable Book for 2003.
| Size | | Length: | 321 pages | | Height: | 8.8 in | | Width: | 5.8 in | | Thickness: | 1.2 in | | Weight: | 16.8 oz |
Industry Reviews
"Barry has a quick wit and a light touch, which helps the reader skate over some of the occasional patches of too-obvious satire....It's CATCH-22 by way of THE MATRIX."
Kirkus Reviews (11/01/2002)
"[A] funny and clever novel....The new corporate world Barry portrays is outrageous, but he doesn't seem outraged by it. In fact, he appears ambivalent, almost fatalistic....It's probably not fair to criticize JENNIFER GOVERNMENT for failing to make the reader angry enough to toss a chair through a Starbucks window. Even the most ambitious social satires tend to have rather limited power in the real world, and Barry is surely more interested in entertaining than in preaching or inciting. And he IS entertaining. For the first hundred pages or so, he unleashed enough wit and surprise to make his story a total blast."
New York Times Book Review - Rob Walker (02/16/2003)
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