TY - BOOK AU - Meno,Joe TI - Office girl: a novel SN - 1617750751 (hc) PY - 2012/// CY - New York PB - Akashic Books KW - Bicycles KW - Fiction KW - Interpersonal relations KW - Man-woman relationships KW - Bildungsromans KW - gsafd KW - Love stories N1 - 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 N2 - 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 Jack is a twenty-five-year-old shirker who's most happy capturing the endless noises of the city on his out-of-date tape recorder.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 ER -