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Author: Matt Beaumont
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2000-10-01
ISBN: 0452281881
Number of pages: 352
Publisher: Plume

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Book Review: Maybe the funniest corporate politics satire ever
Summary: 5 Stars

Written entirely in e-mails (which, impressively, keep the plot rolling along intelligibly and at high speed), it is a satire based on the (barely exaggerated) characters in a UK sub of a large advertising agency, from the rude and shrewd CEO, to the self-obsessed Creative Director and his neurotic PA, to those who are only trying to do their best, and Nige in Accounts.

The book is subtle enough to give all its less attractive characters some redemming features, and its more lovable ones some wharts. It also has some wonderful recurring gags, not least the unsolicited contributions from the CEO of the Finnish sub who is accidentally copied in on all the brusque internal e-mails sent out by the UK CEO.

It will certainly give you a good laugh, and may even keep you awake at night.

Having rolled around for a couple of days in its company, I have just ordered another of his books (Staying Alive) and also one of Maria, his wife's (Marsha Mellow and Me).

Summary of e

A fast-paced, wickedly funny tale of office back-stabbing and corporate intrigue that unfolds in a succession of escalating e-mails.

Carla Browne-1/5/00, 3:05 pm
to: All Departments
re: I'm leaving now . . . but before I go there are some things you should know . . . !!!!

Set in a London ad agency desperate to land a coveted big account, e follows the bureaucratic bungling, cutthroat maneuvers, and outrageous sexual antics of a group of Miller-Shanks employees as they scheme, lie, lust, and claw their way up (and down) the company ladder.

Written by a former advertising copywriter, this hilarious, dead-on-target novel marks the debut of a hip and exciting new voice in contemporary fiction. With the click of a mouse, Matt Beaumont brings the novel of letters into the twenty-first century, turning his merciless, unerring eye on today's Machiavellian corporate culture-with uproarious results.

Rachel Stevenson, Personnel-1/5/00, 3:09 pm
to: Chandra Kapoor cc: David Crutton
re: Urgent: Please delete Carla Browne's ID from e-mail with immediate effect. Thank you.

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