They spend their days - and too many of their nights - at work. Away from friends and family, they share a stretch of stained carpet with a group of strangers they call colleagues. There's Chris Yop, clinging to his ergonomic chair; Lynn Mason, the boss, whose breast cancer everyone pretends not to talk about; Carl Garbedian, secretly taking someone else's medication; Marcia Dw...(展开全部)

“在菲利斯尖刻、有趣的处女作中，辞退通知满天飞，背景是网络泡沫破灭时芝加哥一家广告公司的办公室。”小说以公司职员的第一人称复数“我们”来讲述故事，充分地传达出集体的急躁、唠叨、小气和热心。“我们脾气不好，薪水过高。世界上充斥着互联网资金，我们只是拿到我们应得的一份。我们认为标识设计跟产品性能和分销体系一样重要。酷毙了说的是我们的设计，小儿科说的是别的公司的设计——如果他们真的设计得很好，我们就会向它鞠躬，就像玛雅人向他们的神灵鞠躬一样。”菲利斯的同事们会用微小的、荒谬的反叛来寻开心。比如一位嘴巴闲不住的家伙，决定一天内说话时全引用《教父》里的台词。当一位助理问他对一个项目的意见时，他回答说：“只此一次，这次我让你问我的公事。”

“在菲利斯尖刻、有趣的处女作中，辞退通知满天飞，背景是网络泡沫破灭时芝加哥一家广告公司的办公室。”小说以公司职员的第一人称复数“我们”来讲述故事，充分地传达出集体的急躁、唠叨、小气和热心。“我们脾气不好，薪水过高。世界上充斥着互联网资金，我们只是拿到我们应得的一份。我们认为标识设计跟产品性能和分销体系一样重要。酷毙了说的是我们的设计，小儿科说的是别的公司的设计——如果他们真的设计得很好，我们就会向它鞠躬，就像玛雅人向他们的神灵鞠躬一样。”菲利斯的同事们会用微小的、荒谬的反叛来寻开心。比如一位嘴巴闲不住的家伙，决定一天内说话时全引用《教父》里的台词。当一位助理问他对一个项目的意见时，他回答说：“只此一次，这次我让你问我的公事。”

萬萬沒想到，原來經濟蕭條時，我們正是公司庫存出清的對象，我們像出口過剩的電路板，被丟棄一旁。回家的路上，我們常常猜想，誰會是下一個被裁的…… 21世紀剛開始，一個廣告公司面臨客源減少的壓力，於是開始裁員。裁員這件事有如頑固的一把火，持續煎熬著公司裡面的我們，許多人受不了壓力，職場怪現象也逐漸浮現，故事圍繞著我們陸續發生：有些人把公司的制服連穿一個月，有些人被裁了之後潛回公司印履歷表，有的人偷吃同事的抗憂鬱藥卻弄到中毒，有的疑似頭腦壞了，身上發出沒洗澡的味道。 光怪陸離的人性真相，悲歡離合的生命百態，都在辦公室的八卦、閒聊、假裝忙碌當中，像浮光掠影一樣不斷登場。但是我們有一個共通點：一方面慶幸能有工作，一方面也每天抱怨工作。辦公室就像一個每週住五天的家，當危機來臨時，我們別無選擇，只能彼此倚靠…… 這是一個辦公室裡的人生故事，真實、逗趣、憤怒又悲傷，大...(展开全部)

"The Hillbilly Elegy of France . . . The End of Eddy, however, is not just a remarkable ethnography. It is also a mesmerizing story about difference and adolescence, one that is far more realistic than most.” ―Jennifer Senior, The New York Times "Canny . . . brilliant . . . a devastating emotional force.” ―Garth Greenwell, The New Yorker “Louis' account of growing up gay and po...(展开全部)

"The Hillbilly Elegy of France . . . The End of Eddy, however, is not just a remarkable ethnography. It is also a mesmerizing story about difference and adolescence, one that is far more realistic than most.” ―Jennifer Senior, The New York Times "Canny . . . brilliant . . . a devastating emotional force.” ―Garth Greenwell, The New Yorker “Louis' account of growing up gay and po...(展开全部)

Mislabeled boxes, problems with visiting nurses, confusing notes, an outing to the county fair--such are the obstacles in the way of the unnamed narrator of "The End of the Story "as she attempts to organize her memories of a love affair into a novel. With compassion, wit, and what appears to be candor, she seeks to determine what she actually knows about herself and her past, ...(展开全部)

Mislabeled boxes, problems with visiting nurses, confusing notes, an outing to the county fair--such are the obstacles in the way of the unnamed narrator of "The End of the Story "as she attempts to organize her memories of a love affair into a novel. With compassion, wit, and what appears to be candor, she seeks to determine what she actually knows about herself and her past, ...(展开全部)

A thrilling tale of secretaries turned spies, of love and duty, and of sacrifice--inspired by the true story of the CIA plot to infiltrate the hearts and minds of Soviet Russia, not with propaganda, but with the greatest love story of the twentieth century: Doctor Zhivago. At the height of the Cold War, two secretaries are pulled out of the typing pool at the CIA and given the ...(展开全部)

A thrilling tale of secretaries turned spies, of love and duty, and of sacrifice--inspired by the true story of the CIA plot to infiltrate the hearts and minds of Soviet Russia, not with propaganda, but with the greatest love story of the twentieth century: Doctor Zhivago. At the height of the Cold War, two secretaries are pulled out of the typing pool at the CIA and given the ...(展开全部)