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- catalog abstract ""The anonymous, middle-aged narrator of Perfect Tense is a man for whom the routine of office life - the uniform grey carpets, the endless buff envelopes, the coffee which smells of scorched rubber - has become both a refuge and a prison. Driven by the entropy of the office, out of step with the zeitgeist, he has begun to question his whole generation, and his own empty life in particular." "Recounting his day at the office - one particular day, which seems to mimic the coffee-mug slogan, 'Today Is The First Day Of The Rest Of Your Life' - the narrator scrutinises the arcana of his environment like an urban anthropologist, looking for aesthetic or spiritual purpose and finding only print-outs and suspension files, spider plants and polystyrene cups." "As he sifts through his memoirs of sandwich shops and leaving parties, the legends of colleagues' affairs and the evolution of office decor, the narrator's journey through the world of work becomes a pilgrim's progress, and the office itself an allegorical universe."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12028136.
- catalog created "2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2001.".
- catalog description ""The anonymous, middle-aged narrator of Perfect Tense is a man for whom the routine of office life - the uniform grey carpets, the endless buff envelopes, the coffee which smells of scorched rubber - has become both a refuge and a prison. Driven by the entropy of the office, out of step with the zeitgeist, he has begun to question his whole generation, and his own empty life in particular." "Recounting his day at the office - one particular day, which seems to mimic the coffee-mug slogan, 'Today Is The First Day Of The Rest Of Your Life' - the narrator scrutinises the arcana of his environment like an urban anthropologist, looking for aesthetic or spiritual purpose and finding only print-outs and suspension files, spider plants and polystyrene cups." "As he sifts through his memoirs of sandwich shops and leaving parties, the legends of colleagues' affairs and the evolution of office decor, the narrator's journey through the world of work becomes a pilgrim's progress, and the office itself an allegorical universe."--Jacket.".
- catalog extent "168 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Perfect tense.".
- catalog identifier "0224044516".
- catalog isFormatOf "Perfect tense.".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "London : Jonathan Cape,".
- catalog relation "Perfect tense.".
- catalog subject "823.914 21".
- catalog subject "Clerks Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Domestic fiction.".
- catalog subject "Offices Fiction.".
- catalog subject "PR6052.R234 P47 2001".
- catalog title "Perfect tense / Michael Bracewell.".
- catalog type "Fiction. fast".
- catalog type "text".