FICTION
Released: July 10, 2007
"Jungersen raises moral questions tactfully, without trivializing the issues."
Danish author Jungersen's second novel, a bestseller in Europe and his first to be translated into English, suggests a connection between office politics and genocide; the book won Denmark's Golden Laurels prize.
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FICTION
Released: March 1, 2007
"The funhouse mirror here reflects the office dynamic at its most petty and profound."
This debut novel about life in a Chicago advertising agency succeeds as both a wickedly incisive satire of office groupthink and a surprisingly moving meditation on mortality and the ties that band.
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FICTION
Released: April 5, 2004
"By turns ominous, hilarious, and genuinely scary: Hynes (The Lecturer's Tale, 2001, etc.) offers a highly original send-up of the most unnatural activity ever conceived by the human mind--work."
A darkly comic portrait of the Job from hell follows the vertiginous downward spiral of a failed academic who loses his wife, his career, his self-respect, and possibly even his sanity.
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FICTION
Released: April 22, 2003
A junior assistantship to the editor of the world's top fashion magazine ("The job a million girls would die for") provides endless fodder for a one-note but on-the-money kiss-and-tell debut.
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FICTION
Released: Feb. 8, 2000
"A delightful, smart, twisted commentary on ambition, careerism, love, and modern life by the most likely newcomer since Nick Hornby to make you laugh out loud on a bus."
Every generation needs its What Makes Sammy Run, its Floater, its tale of a young man trying to make it in the glamour biz of the moment.
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FICTION
Released: Nov. 9, 1987
"Often hilarious, and much, much more."
Sheer entertainment against a fabulous background, proving that late-blooming first-novelist Wolfe, a superobserver of the social scene (The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby, Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers), has the right stuff for fiction.
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