Godina izdanja: Ostalo
ISBN: Ostalo
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Paperback, 177 pages
`[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.