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24%OFFMatt Beaumont - e: A Novel - 9780007100682 - V9780007100682
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e: A Novel

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Description for e: A Novel Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 193 x 128 x 22. Weight in Grams: 262.

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 ... Read more

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.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780007100682
SKU
V9780007100682
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-24

About Matt Beaumont
Matt Beaumont is a copywriter and has been fired by some of London’s leading ad agencies. He lives in North London with his wife and two children.

Reviews for e: A Novel
Praise for e ‘A brilliantly plotted comic novel about life in an advertising agency, narrated entirely through office emails. It gives me more sense that literature is alive and kicking than anything else I’ve read in these millennial 12 months.’ Humphrey Carpenter, Sunday Times Review of the Year ... Read more

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