Help Wanted

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ISBN9781805221661
AuthorsAdelle Waldman
PublisherProfile Books Ltd
FormatPaperback
Number of pages288
Weight (kg)0.240
Publishing Date16/01/2025
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A NEW YORK TIMES Book Review Editors'' Choice A VOGUE, VULTURE, ELLE, NEW YORKER and ECONOMIST Best Book of the YearA TIME Must-Read Book of 2024''Filled with an exceptional cast of characters and written with a delicious acid-drop humour'' i Paper, Best Paperbacks Out in 2025''Help Wanted is like a great nineteenth-century novel about now, at once an effervescent workplace comedy and an exploration of the psychic toll exacted by the labour market'' Elif Batuman, author of The Idiot''Help Wanted held me from its first page. Waldman transmits, through narrative tension and beautifully rendered heartbreak, the exact way that capitalism turned on the very lives it was there to boost and instead corroded'' Taffy Brodesser-Akner, author of The Long Island Compromise ''Poignant, funny, stealthily ambitious'' The New York Times''Eliot-like ... . It is simultaneously a joke, a homage, and a provocation for our unequal age. Help Wanted washes labour in a stately, almost Steinbeckian light, emphasizing its difficulty but also its dignity'' New YorkerTightly plotted, slyly caustic and often very funny'' Daily MailWhen the store manager at an upstate New York superstore announces he''s leaving, the motley crew members of Team Movement take the news surprisingly well. Overworked and exhausted, they spend their early morning shifts scheming about their jobs and their futures. Now is their only chance to get their hated line manager Meredith promoted up and away from them. And then one of them can replace her - but who will it be?