Apathy and Other Small Victories by Paul Neilan

Apathy and Other Small Victories by Paul Neilan

A scathingly funny debut novel about disillusionment, indifference, and one man's desperate fight to assign absolutely no meaning to modern life.

The only thing Shane cares about is leaving. Usually on a Greyhound bus, right before his life falls apart again. Just like he planned. But this time it's complicated: there's a sadistic corporate climber who thinks she's his girlfriend, a rent-subsidized affair with his landlord's wife, and the bizarrely appealing deaf assistant to Shane's cosmically unstable dentist.

When one of the women is murdered, and Shane is the only suspect who doesn't care enough to act like he didn't do it, the question becomes just how he'll clear the good name he never had and doesn't particularly want: his own.

"The malaise of cubicle culture may be well-trodden comedic territory by now, but Neilan's debut skewers office life with a flourish for the grotesque." --The Village Voice

Neilan, Paul: - Paul Neilan grew up in New Jersey before fleeing the Garden State for its polar opposite: Portland, Oregon. A graduate of Rutgers University, he worked a mind-numbing job in an insurance company where he spent much of his time asleep in the bathroom dodging his boss and his coworkers. It was in the uniquely creative zone of the disabled stall of that men's room, legs akimbo and drool puddling on the linoleum floor, that he began to hatch the idea for his first novel, Apathy and Other Small Victories.

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ISBN 13	9780312352196
ISBN 10	0312352190
Title	Apathy and Other Small Victories
Author	Paul Neilan
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Saint Martin's Griffin,U.S.
Year published	2007-06-26
Number of pages	240
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