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Since the Layoffs. - Couverture souple

Levison, Iain

 
9781569473627: Since the Layoffs.
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1569473625 ISBN 13 : 9781569473627
Editeur : Soho Press, 2004

Synopsis

"[A] dark, satirical comedy. . . . Written with the same kind of deadpan humor Levison used so well in his first book."—USA Today

"A gleeful satire. . . . It’s an amusingly bleak little (im)moral fable."—Detroit Free Press

"Exciting, funny, poignant and sociologically important."—The Chicago Tribune

"Levison’s irony is acute as he caricatures the working world’s groundlings."—The New York Times Book Review

The work Jake Skowran is offered is a lot less than legal. He’s got little choice except to take it. The guys who owned the factory have left town for someplace where there’s more sun and cheaper labor. The deserted plant is fenced in and the fence topped with razor wire, as if they’d worried that the locals would steal tractor-building equipment and start making tractors in their basements. Jake’s girlfriend has also decamped (along with the vacuum cleaner and the entertainment center).

"She went off with some used car dealer, huh?" his bookie mocks.

"He was a new car dealer," Jake retorts.

Jake’s got six months of unemployment left before he’s dead broke and the locks get changed. Life has turned into one big downgrade. It has downsized and hardened him. He’s up for anything. The economy is pain, lies and silliness, and he is going to carve off a piece of it for himself or die trying.

Iain Levison is the author of A Working Stiff’s Manifesto, an account of his postcollegiate work experience, consisting of 42 jobs in 10 years. He lives in Philadelphia.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

"[A] dark, satirical comedy. . . . Written with the same kind of deadpan humor Levison used so well in his first book."— USA Today

"A gleeful satire. . . . It’s an amusingly bleak little (im)moral fable."— Detroit Free Press

"Exciting, funny, poignant and sociologically important."— The Chicago Tribune

"Levison’s irony is acute as he caricatures the working world’s groundlings."— The New York Times Book Review

The work Jake Skowran is offered is a lot less than legal. He’s got little choice except to take it. The guys who owned the factory have left town for someplace where there’s more sun and cheaper labor. The deserted plant is fenced in and the fence topped with razor wire, as if they’d worried that the locals would steal tractor-building equipment and start making tractors in their basements. Jake’s girlfriend has also decamped (along with the vacuum cleaner and the entertainment center).

"She went off with some used car dealer, huh?" his bookie mocks.

"He was a new car dealer," Jake retorts.

Jake’s got six months of unemployment left before he’s dead broke and the locks get changed. Life has turned into one big downgrade. It has downsized and hardened him. He’s up for anything. The economy is pain, lies and silliness, and he is going to carve off a piece of it for himself or die trying.

Iain Levison is the author of A Working Stiff’s Manifesto, an account of his postcollegiate work experience, consisting of 42 jobs in 10 years. He lives in Philadelphia.

Les informations fournies dans la section « A propos du livre » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.

Éditeur
Soho Press
Date d'édition
2004
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1569473625
ISBN 13 
9781569473627
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
188
Coordonnées du fabricant
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