| The Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise Contributor(s): Perec, Georges (Author), Bellos, David (Translator) |
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ISBN: 178478656X ISBN-13: 9781784786564 Publisher: Verso OUR PRICE: $18.95 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Humorous - Black Humor - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Satire |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 4.3" W x 6.8" (0.18 lbs) 112 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |