Jennifer Government - (Vintage Contemporaries) by Max Barry (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>In the near future, corporations rule the world and the one who defies them is pursued relentlessly.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>A wickedly satirical and outrageous thriller about globalization and marketing hype, <i>Jennifer Government </i>is the best novel in the world ever. <p/>Funny and clever.... A kind of ad-world version of <i>Dr. Strangelove.... </i>[Barry] unleashes enough wit and surprise to make his story a total blast. --<i>The New York Times Book Review</i> <p/>Wicked and wonderful.... [It] does just about everything right.... Fast-moving, funny, involving. --<i>The Washington Post Book World</i> <p/>Taxation has been abolished, the government has been privatized, and employees take the surname of the company they work for. It's a brave new corporate world, but you don't want to be caught without a platinum credit card--as lowly Merchandising Officer Hack Nike is about to find out. Trapped into building street cred for a new line of $2500 sneakers by shooting customers, Hack attracts the barcode-tattooed eye of the legendary Jennifer Government. A stressed-out single mom, corporate watchdog, and government agent who has to rustle up funding before she's allowed to fight crime, Jennifer Government is holding a closing down sale--and everything must go.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Wicked and wonderful. . . . [It] does just about everything right. Fast-moving, funny and involving."--<i>The Washington Post Book World <p/></i>"Funny and clever. . . . A kind of ad-world version of <i>Dr. Strangelove.</i> [Barry] unleashes enough wit and surprise to make his story a total blast." --<i>The New York Times Book <p/></i> "May be the most fun you'll find in a bookstore this year. . . . Full of wit, humor and imagination, Jennifer Government ultimately pulls off its over-the-top conceit."--<i>Time Out New York <p/></i>"A riotous satirical rant. . . . [Its characters'] excesses . . . make Barry's world of unregulated corporate greed and unrelenting consumerism so frightening and funny."--<i>Entertainment Weekly <p/></i>"The plot rockets forward on hyperdrive . . . fresh and very clever."--<i>The Boston Globe <p/></i> "[A] devilish satire that made me laugh out loud."--Dick Adler, <i>The Chicago Tribune<br></i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Max Barry is an Australian, for which he apologizes. He is the author of the cult hit <b>Syrup</b>, although he spelled his name "Maxx" for that novel, "because it seemed like a funny joke about marketing, and I failed to realize everyone would assume I was a pretentious asshole." He was born on March 18, 1973, and lives in Melbourne, Australia, where he writes full-time, the advantage being that he can do it while wearing boxer shorts.
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