Office girl : a novel / by Joe Meno.
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TextPublication details: New York : Akashic Books, c2012.Description: 288 p. : ill. ; 19 cmISBN: - 1617750751 (hc)
- 161775076X (pbk)
- 9781617750755 (hc)
- 9781617750762 (pbk)
- Bohemians
- Young people on bicycles doing troubling things
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Main Library | Fiction | Meno Joe | Available | 33111007021120 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Best-selling novelist Joe Meno is back with fantastic new novel about two young people and a visionary, doomed art movement.
"An off-kilter romance doubles as an art movement in Joe Meno's novel. The novel reads as a parody of art-school types . . . and as a tribute to their devil-may-care spirit. Meno impressively captures post-adolescent female angst and insecurity. Fresh and funny, the images also encapsulate the mortification, confusion and excitement that define so many 20-something existences." -- New York Times Book Review
"Meno has constructed a snowflake-delicate inquiry into alienation and longing. Illustrated with drawings and photographs and shaped by tender empathy, buoyant imagination, and bittersweet wit, this wistful, provocative, off-kilter love story affirms the bonds forged by art and story." -- Booklist , Starred Review
No one dies in Office Girl . Nobody talks about the international political situation. There is no mention of any economic collapse. Nothing takes place during a World War.
Instead, this novel is about young people doing interesting things in the final moments of the last century. Odile is a lovely twenty-three-year-old art school dropout, a minor vandal, and a hopeless dreamer. Jack is a twenty-five-year-old shirker who's most happy capturing the endless noises of the city on his out-of-date tape recorder. Together they decide to start their own art movement in defiance of a contemporary culture made dull by both the tedious and the obvious. Set in February 1999--just before the end of one world and the beginning of another-- Office Girl is the story of two people caught between the uncertainty of their futures and the all-too-brief moments of modern life.
Title from title page. Extended title follows over the next eight pages, with the verso on the following page. Extended title: Office girl, or, Bohemians, or, Young people on bicycles doing troubling things.
Odile is a lovely twenty-three-year-old art-school dropout, a minor vandal, and a hopeless dreamer. Jack is a twenty-five-year-old shirker who's most happy capturing the endless noises of the city on his out-of-date tape recorder. Together they decide to start their own art movement in defiance of a contemporary culture made dull by both the tedious and the obvious. Set in February 1999, just before the end of one world and the beginning of another, Office girl is the story of two people caught between the uncertainty of their futures and the all-too-brief moments of modern life.