{"product_id":"office-girl-paperback","title":"Office Girl - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJoe Meno\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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.\" --\u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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.\" --\u003cem\u003eBooklist\u003c\/em\u003e, Starred Review\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo one dies in \u003cem\u003eOffice Girl\u003c\/em\u003e. Nobody talks about the international political situation. There is no mention of any economic collapse. Nothing takes place during a World War.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInstead, 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 Jack is a twenty-five-year-old shirker who's most happy capturing the endless noises of the city on his out-of-date tape recorder.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--\u003cem\u003eOffice Girl\u003c\/em\u003e is the story of two people caught between the uncertainty of their futures and the all-too-brief moments of modern life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoe Meno is a fiction writer and playwright who lives in Chicago. He is a winner of the Nelson Algren Literary Award, a Pushcart Prize, the Great Lakes Book Award, and was a finalist for the Story Prize. He is the author of five novels and two short story collections including \u003ci\u003eThe Great Perhaps, The Boy Detective Fails, Demons in the Spring, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHairstyles of the Damned.\u003c\/i\u003e His short fiction has been published in \u003ci\u003eOne Story, McSweeney's, Swink, LIT, TriQuarterly, Other Voices, Gulf Coast\u003c\/i\u003e, and broadcast on NPR. His nonfiction has appeared in the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eChicago Magazine.\u003c\/i\u003e His stage plays have been produced in Chicago, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and Charville, France. He is an associate professor in the Fiction Writing Department at Columbia College Chicago.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 7.1 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 03, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48561333272825,"sku":"9781617750762","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/VTfwQNTe9N9781617750762.webp?v=1782080204","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/office-girl-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}