e: A Novel

di Matt Beaumont (Autore)

HarperCollins Publishers, 2000

An unforgettable first novel, an author to shout about, a campaign to ensure that everyone knows this is the funniest, sharpest read of the year. Consisting entirely of staff emails, e spends a fortnight in the company of Miller Shanks, an advertising agency that scales dizzying peaks of incompetence. Among the cast are a CEO with an MBA from the Joseph Stalin School of Management, a Creative Director who is a genius, if only in his own head, designers and copywriters driven by breasts, beer or Bach Flower Remedies, and secretaries who drip honey and spit blood. The novel is a tapestry of insincerity, backstabbing and bare-arsed bitchiness: that is to say, everyday office politics. Oh yes, and there is some work to be done too – the quest for advertising’s Eldorado, the Coca-Cola account. e is sleazy, scurrilous and scabrously funny. It also contains a first-class joke about the Pope and sound advice on the maintenance of industrial carpet tiles.

• Autore: Matt Beaumont
• Editore: HarperCollins Publishers
• Anno: 2000
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 352 p.
• Dimensioni: 198 x 129 mm
• Peso: 250 gr.
• EAN: 9780007100682

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