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Office Girl
Best-selling novelist Joe Meno is back with fantastic new novel about two young people and a visionary, doomed art movement. * National events featuring Joe Meno TBA "Fresh and sharply observed, Office Girl is a love story on bicycles, capturing the beauty of individual moments and the magic hidden in everyday objects and people. Joe Meno will make you stop and notice the world. And he will make you wonder."--Hannah Tinti, author of The Good Thief NO ONE DIES IN OFFICE GIRL. Nobody talks about the international political situation. There is no mention of any economic collapse. Nothing takes place during a World War. INSTEAD, THIS NOVEL IS ABOUT YOUNG PEOPLE doing interesting things in the final moments of the last century. Odile is a lovely twenty-three-year-old art-school dropout, a minor vandal, and a hopeless dreamer. Jack is a twenty-five-year-old shirker who's most happy capturing the endless noises of the city on his out-of-date tape recorder. Together they decide to start their own art movement in defiance of a contemporary culture made dull by both the tedious and the obvious. Set in February 1999--just before the end of one world and the beginning of another--Office Girl is the story of two people caught between the uncertainty of their futures and the all-too-brief moments of modern life. JOE MENO'S LATEST NOVEL ALSO FEATURES black-and-white illustrations by renowned artist Cody Hudson and photographs by visionary photographer Todd Baxter. JOE MENO is a fiction writer and playwright who lives in Chicago. He is a winner of the Nelson Algren Literary Award, a Pushcart Prize, the Great Lakes Book Award, and was a finalist for the Story Prize. He is the author of five novels and two short story collections including Hairstyles of the Damned, The Great Perhaps, How the Hula Girl Sings, The Boy Detective Fails, Tender as Hellfire, and Demons in the Spring. His short fiction has been published in One Story, McSweeney's, Swink, LIT, TriQuarterly, Other Voices, Gulf Coast, and broadcast on NPR. His nonfiction has appeared in the New York Times and Chicago Magazine. He is an associate professor in the Fiction Writing Department at Columbia College Chicago.
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Paper
Gèneres
General Fiction, Romance, Fiction and Literature
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Akashic Books (Editorial)
(User: johannaingalls)
Lot
May 2012
Starts: 2012-05-04
Acabat: 2012-05-29
En venda
2012-08-02
Països
Canada, United States of America
Enllaços
Informació del llibrePàgina de treball de LibraryThing
Receipt
14 ha ressenyat, 3 marked received
Lot tancat
20
Nombre d'exemplars
573
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