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Georges Perec The Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise (Paperback) (UK IMPORT)
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- Book Title
- Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise
- Publication Name
- The Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise
- Title
- The Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise
- ISBN-10
- 178478656X
- EAN
- 9781784786564
- ISBN
- 9781784786564
- Publisher
- Verso Books
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Release Year
- 2017
- Release Date
- 17/01/2017
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- GB
- Item Height
- 0.3 in
- Item Length
- 7.1 in
- Item Weight
- 2.9 Oz
- Translator
- David Bellos
- Contributor
- David Bellos (Translated by)
- Genre
- Fiction, Business & Economics
- Topic
- Humorous / Black Humor, Satire, Literary, Negotiating
- Publication Year
- 2017
- Item Width
- 4.4 in
- Number of Pages
- 112 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Verso Books
ISBN-10
178478656X
ISBN-13
9781784786564
eBay Product ID (ePID)
10038757675
Product Key Features
Book Title
Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise
Number of Pages
112 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Humorous / Black Humor, Satire, Literary, Negotiating
Publication Year
2017
Genre
Fiction, Business & Economics
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.3 in
Item Weight
2.9 Oz
Item Length
7.1 in
Item Width
4.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
TitleLeading
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Reviews
"Its wit and comedy encourage compulsive consumption."-David O'Neill, Barnes and Noble Review "A hilarious and inventive office-drone odyssey."- Bookforum "We readers will have to deal with the fortunate burden of clearing shelf-space for another novel by Perec this spring, with the first English translation of The Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise ."-Most Anticipated Books of 2011, The Millions "As a witty indictment of corporate culture and an artifact from one of the 20th century's most bizarre literary movements, The Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise -as with all the works of Georges Perec-is a puzzle too absurd not to explore ... [it] will interest any reader who has ever worked in a large bureaucracy and considered himself underpaid."-James K. McAuley, Harvard Crimson "Perec's novels are games, each different. They are played for real stakes and in some cases breathtakingly large ones. As games should be, and as literary games often are not, they are fun."- Los Angeles Times "We defy you to walk by this book and not pick it up. Perfectly packaged and immediately intriguing!"- A Largehearted WORD Book of the Week "A brilliant ... conceptual, comedic novella from the writer who wrote the postmodern masterpiece Life: A User's Manual ."- City Arts "An acute and penetrating vision of the world of office work."- Arthur "Perec's knack for absurdity and circumlocution ensures that each iteration is novel and urgent."- Full Stop "[A] fun read for someone who enjoys computer programming and corporate irony, and would make a perfect gift for the office mate with a good sense of humor."- bestdamncreativewritingblog "[A] terribly compelling work, one that does a great deal with very little. With his use of repetition, which also evokes a pre-set mechanism, Perec establishes a rhythm of sorts, while his subtle deviations from the pattern serve as moments of dark comedy."- Slant Magazine "Certainly something different, and quite enjoyable."- Complete Review
Dewey Decimal
843.914
Synopsis
Darkly funny account of the office worker's mindset by the celebrated French novelist A long-suffering employee in a big corporation has summoned up the courage to ask for a raise. But as he runs through the looming encounter in his mind, his neuroses come to the surface: What is the best day to see the boss? What if he doesn't offer you a seat when you go into his office? The Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise is a hilarious account of an employee losing his identity--and possibly his sanity--as he tries to put on the most acceptable face for the corporate world,with its rigid hierarchies and hostility to new ideas. If he follows a certain course of action, so this logic goes, he will succeed--but, in accepting these conditions, are his attempts to challenge his world of work doomed from the outset? Neurotic and pessimistic, yet endearing, comic and never less than entertaining, Perec's Woody Allen-esque underling presents an acute and penetrating vision of the world of office work, as pertinent today as it was when it was written in 1968., Darkly funny account of the office worker's mindset by the celebrated French novelist A long-suffering employee in a big corporation has summoned up the courage to ask for a raise. But as he runs through the looming encounter in his mind, his neuroses come to the surface: What is the best day to see the boss? What if he doesn't offer you a seat when you go into his office? The Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise is a hilarious account of an employee losing his identity--and possibly his sanity--as he tries to put on the most acceptable face for the corporate world, with its rigid hierarchies and hostility to new ideas. If he follows a certain course of action, so this logic goes, he will succeed--but, in accepting these conditions, are his attempts to challenge his world of work doomed from the outset? Neurotic and pessimistic, yet endearing, comic and never less than entertaining, Perec's Woody Allen-esque underling presents an acute and penetrating vision of the world of office work, as pertinent today as it was when it was written in 1968.
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