Help Wanted - A Barack Obama Reading Pick 2024
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| Verlag | Profile Books |
| Auflage | 2025 |
| Seiten | 288 |
| Format | 12,8 x 2,6 x 19,6 cm |
| B Format Paperback | |
| Gewicht | 240 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| EAN | 9781805221661 |
| Bestell-Nr | 80522166UA |
Clock in for a night shift - and for a moving multi-perspective novel that explores life in the gig economy
§A NEW YORK TIMES Book Review Editors' Choice
A VOGUE, VULTURE, ELLE, NEW YORKER and ECONOMIST Best Book of the Year
A TIME Must-Read Book of 2024
'Help Wanted is like a great nineteenth-century novel about now, at once an effervescent workplace comedy and an exploration of the psychic toll exacted by the labour market' Elif Batuman, author of The Idiot
'Help Wanted held me from its first page. Waldman transmits, through narrative tension and beautifully rendered heartbreak, the exact way that capitalism turned on the very lives it was there to boost and instead corroded' Taffy Brodesser-Akner, author of The Long Island Compromise
'Poignant, funny, stealthily ambitious' The New York Times
'Eliot-like ... . It is simultaneously a joke, a homage, and a provocation for our unequal age. Help Wanted washes labour in a stately, almost Steinbeckian light, emphasizing its difficulty but also its dignity' New Yorker
Tightly plotted, slyly caustic and often very funny' Daily Mail
When the store manager at an upstate New York superstore announces he's leaving, the motley crew members of Team Movement take the news surprisingly well. Overworked and exhausted, they spend their early morning shifts scheming about their jobs and their futures. Now is their only chance to get their hated line manager Meredith promoted up and away from them. And then one of them can replace her - but who will it be?
Rezension:
A superb, empathic comedy of manners. Perhaps the most impressive thing about Help Wanted is that Waldman manages, in telling her small story, to describe not just the American economic prison but the global one. So: both a novel of manners and a systems novel, a book that shows us, perhaps, how intimately linked these apparently disparate genres were all along Guardian
