Please Be Advised - Christine Sneed

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Résumé :
Please Be Advised is award-winning author Christine Sneed's bright, irreverent send-up of corporate America in the 21st century. Mixing cultural critique and formal inventiveness with wicked laughs and the sort of surrealistic mysteries only a novel about the corporate world could give us, Please Be Advised tracks the decline, fall, and possible resurrection of Quest Industries, one of the world's foremost purveyors of collapsible, portable, and (occasionally) dangerous office machines. Featuring a rogue's gallery of corporate cogs from drunk, womanizing, and often-delusional CEO Bryan Stokerly, Esq. to his executive secretary, the brainy, libidinous Hannah Louise Schmidt and his soon-to-be-rival, new office manager and disgraced former coroner, Dr. Ken Crickshaw, Jr., Please Be Advised will leave you laughing at a work world more like our own than most of us would care to admit.

Biographie:
Christine Sneed's previous books include Portraits of a Few of the People I've Made Cry, Little Known Facts, The Virginity of Famous Men, and Paris, He Said, and she is the editor of the short fiction anthology Love in the Time of Time's Up. Her work has appeared in The Best American Short Stories, O. Henry Prize Stories, Ploughshares, New York Times, Chicago Tribune, and other publications. She has received the Grace Paley Prize, the Chicago Public Library Foundation's 21st Century Award, among other honors, and has been a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. She teaches for Northwestern University and Regis University.