Break in Case of Emergency [electronic resource]
Winter, Jessica2016
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'Extremely funny – a satirical masterpiece that is tender and existentially-minded as well. I loved it!' Elizabeth McKenzie, author of THE PORTABLE VEBLEN 'Very smart and juicy and weird and entertaining ... it reads like a chick lit plot written by Franzen' Curtis Sittenfeld Jen has reached her early thirties and has all but abandoned a once-promising painting career when, spurred by the economic crisis, she takes a poorly defined job at a feminist nonprofit. The foundation's aim is to empower women, but staffers spend all their time devising acronyms for imaginary programs, ruthlessly undermining one another, and stroking the ego of their boss, the larger-than-life celebrity philanthropist Leora Infinitas. Jen's complicity in this passive-aggressive hellscape only intensifies her feelings of inferiority compared to her two best friends – one a wealthy attorney with a picture-perfect family, the other a passionately committed artist – and so does Jen's apparent inability to have a baby, a source of existential panic that begins to affect her marriage and her already precarious status at the office. Jessica Winter's ferociously intelligent debut novel is a wry satire that explores the difficulty of navigating friendships as they shift to accommodate marriage and family, and the unspoken tensions that can strain even the strongest bonds.
Main title:
Break in Case of Emergency [electronic resource] / Jessica Winter
Author:
Winter, Jessica, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : HarperCollins Publishers, 2016
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
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Mode of access: Internet
Biography/History:
Jessica Winter is a senior editor at Slate, and has previously worked as an editor at Time and O Magazine. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Guardian, Bookforum, The Believer, Modern Painters, and many other publications. She lives in Brooklyn.
ISBN:
9780008132101
Language:
English
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BRN:
2800990
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