Kings of Infinite Space
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ISBN: 0312319665 / Publisher: Picador, March 2005
In the wake of numerous failed relationships and a setback in his university teaching career, Paul Trilby begins to realize how bad things have become when he reaches out to the office's foul-mouthed mail girl and notices strange occurrences in his town. By the author of The Lecturer's Tale and Publish and Perish. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.
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"Immensely witty...thoroughly entertaining."--The Washington Post Book WorldPaul Trilby is having a bad day. If he were to be honest with himself, Paul Trilby would have to admit that he's having a bad life. His wife left him. Three subsequent girlfriends left him. He's fallen from a top-notch university teaching job, to a textbook publisher, to, eventually, working as a temp writer for the Texas Department of General Services. And even here, in this land of carpeted partitions and cheap lighting fixtures, Paul cannot escape the curse his life has become. For it is not until he begins a tentative romance with the office's sassy mail girl that he begins to notice things are truly wrong. Strange sounds come from the air conditioning vents, the ceiling bulges, a body disappears. Mysterious men lurk about town, wearing thick glasses and pocket protectors...Kings of Infinite Space is a hilarious and horrifying spoof on our everyday lives and gives true voice to the old adage, "Work is Hell."
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