| Fat Bald Jeff Contributor(s): Stella, Leslie (Author) |
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ISBN: 0802137725 ISBN-13: 9780802137722 Publisher: Grove Press OUR PRICE: $10.80 Product Type: Paperback Published: February 2001 Annotation: A wild spoof of office politics and slacker style, "Fat Bald Jeff" takes us on a mad journey through the cocktail parties, heinous apartments, mindless drudgery, and thrift-store refinement that are the twenty-something experience. It pits two office misfits in a plot to overthrow the office hierarchy through underground Web publishing. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Humorous - General - Fiction | Psychological |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 00063657 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.47" W x 8.23" (0.40 lbs) 160 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A wild spoof of office politics and slacker style, Fat Bald Jeff takes us on a mad journey through the cocktail parties, heinous apartments, mindless drudgery, and thrift-store refinement that are the twenty-something experience. It skewers the evil boss everyone suffers at least once, giving the downtrodden a chance to get even, as well as something to laugh about. Addie Prewitt is a copy editor for the National Association of Libraries. When her boss, the repulsive Coddles, heaps another new project on her department -- with no additional remuneration naturally -- she decides she's had enough. She spends her days battling with her rommate, Val Wayne Newton, about whether Black Sabbath or Neil Diamond will occupy the turntable and her nights beating her overeager suitor, Martin Lemming, away from the door of her boudoir. When she discovers a piece of vile pornography in Coddles's dry cleaning, she has the means to retaliate. Meanwhile, Fat Bald Jeff, the tech-support guy who has to cope with her mechanical self-sabotage, turns out to be even more disaffected than she, and they hatch the ultimate plan to give the pigs some of their own medicine. With a surreal wit and a keen eye that bring to mind Lily Tomlin set loose in Dilbert-world, Fat Bald Jeff is a sharp satire and a paean to the petty humiliations of workers everywhere. |