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Truth in Advertising
John Kenney
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Description for Truth in Advertising
Paperback. In the spirit of Then We Came to the End and This Is Where I Leave You, John Kenney mines his own advertising background to create this moving debut. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 286 x 23. Weight in Grams: 270.
Finbar Dolan is lost and lonely. Except he doesn't know it. Despite escaping his blue-collar Boston upbringing to carve out a mildly successful career at a Madison Avenue ad agency, he's a bit of a mess and closing in on forty. He's recently called off his wedding. Now, a few days before Christmas, he's forced to cancel a long-postponed vacation in order to write, produce, and edit a Superbowl commercial for his diaper account in record time. Fortunately, it gets worse. He learns that his long-estranged and once-abusive father has fallen ill. And that neither his brothers nor his sister intend to visit. It's a wake-up call for Fin to re-evaluate the choices he's made, admit that he's falling for his co-worker Phoebe, question the importance of diapers in his life, and finally tell the truth about his life and his past.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781472152107
SKU
V9781472152107
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-10
About John Kenney
John Kenney has worked as a copywriter in New York City for seventeen years. He has also been a contributor to The New Yorker magazine since 1999. Some of his work appears in a collection of The New Yorker's humor writing, Disquiet, Please! He lives in Brooklyn, New York. Visit ByJohnKenney.com.
Reviews for Truth in Advertising
A former copywriter, Kenney knows this world and skewers it with deadly accuracy.
Sunday Herald
With wry humor, always on point, Kenney guides us through the maze of work, family, love (elusive) and friendship (a lifesaver). This is an outstanding debut
Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
A masterful blend of wit and seriousness, stunning in its honesty. A novel sure to appeal to fans of Nick Hornby
Booklist (starred review)
It's the stuff of Jonathan Tropper novels and Judd Apatow films and every Zooey Deschanel fantasy
USAToday.com
In this Nick Hornby-esque fiction debut, midlife crisis and family tragedy force a 39-year-old ad man to reevaluate his priorities.
O Magazine, Ten Titles to Pick Up Now
A lively debut that has 'movie deal' written all over it.
People Magazine
We're sold on Kenney's trenchant, quick-witted debut
Entertainment Weekly
The protagonist, Finbar Dolan, is Don Draper stripped of all his glamour, success and pomade. What Fin, a midlevel copywriter, does have on Don is a sense of humor. . . . Framed around a surprisingly sweet romance, as well as Fin's eventual confrontation with his painful family history, this debut offers a pleasing lightness-to-heart ratio.
New York Times
A quick-witted, wry sendup of the advertising industry and corporate culture...A clear-eyed, sympathetic story about complex family ties and the possibility of healing
Washington Post
Sunday Herald
With wry humor, always on point, Kenney guides us through the maze of work, family, love (elusive) and friendship (a lifesaver). This is an outstanding debut
Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
A masterful blend of wit and seriousness, stunning in its honesty. A novel sure to appeal to fans of Nick Hornby
Booklist (starred review)
It's the stuff of Jonathan Tropper novels and Judd Apatow films and every Zooey Deschanel fantasy
USAToday.com
In this Nick Hornby-esque fiction debut, midlife crisis and family tragedy force a 39-year-old ad man to reevaluate his priorities.
O Magazine, Ten Titles to Pick Up Now
A lively debut that has 'movie deal' written all over it.
People Magazine
We're sold on Kenney's trenchant, quick-witted debut
Entertainment Weekly
The protagonist, Finbar Dolan, is Don Draper stripped of all his glamour, success and pomade. What Fin, a midlevel copywriter, does have on Don is a sense of humor. . . . Framed around a surprisingly sweet romance, as well as Fin's eventual confrontation with his painful family history, this debut offers a pleasing lightness-to-heart ratio.
New York Times
A quick-witted, wry sendup of the advertising industry and corporate culture...A clear-eyed, sympathetic story about complex family ties and the possibility of healing
Washington Post