Meiselman The Lean Years |
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Author:
| Landes, Avner |
Series title: | New Chicago Classics Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-1-948954-14-3 |
Publication Date: | Mar 2021 |
Publisher: | Tortoise Books
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $19.99 |
Book Description:
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Meiselman has had enough. After a life spent playing by the rules, this lonely thirty-six-year-old man--"number two" at a suburban Chicago public library, in charge of events and programs, and in no control whatsoever over his fantasies about his domineering boss--is looking to come out on top, at last. What seems like an ordinary week in 2004 will prove to be a golden opportunity (at least in his mind) to reverse a lifetime of petty humiliations. And no one--not his newly...
More Description Meiselman has had enough. After a life spent playing by the rules, this lonely thirty-six-year-old man--"number two" at a suburban Chicago public library, in charge of events and programs, and in no control whatsoever over his fantasies about his domineering boss--is looking to come out on top, at last. What seems like an ordinary week in 2004 will prove to be a golden opportunity (at least in his mind) to reverse a lifetime of petty humiliations. And no one--not his newly observant wife, not the Holocaust survivor neighbor who regularly disturbs his sleep with her late-night gardening, and certainly not the former-classmate-turned-renowned-author who's returning to the library for a triumphant literary homecoming--will stand in his way.
"Meiselman is a triumph of comic escalation." -- Sam Lipsyte, author of Hark and The Ask