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.
ISBN: | 9780007100682 |
Publisher: | HarperCollins Publishers |
Imprint: | HarperCollinsPublishers |
Published date: | 02 Jan 2007 |
DEWEY: | 823.92 |
DEWEY edition: | 22 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 342 |
Weight: | 248g |
Height: | 193mm |
Width: | 128mm |
Spine width: | 22mm |