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An irreverent and deeply moving comedy about friendship, fertility, and fighting for one's sanity in a toxic workplace.§§Jen has reached her early thirties and has all but abandoned a once-promising painting career when, spurred by the 2008 economic crisis, she takes a poorly defined job at a feminist nonprofit. The foundation's ostensible aim is to empower women, but staffers spend all their time devising acronyms for imaginary programs, ruthlessly undermining one another, and stroking the ego of their boss, the larger-than-life celebrity philanthropist Leora Infinitas. Jen's complicity in this passive-aggressive hellscape only intensifies her feelings of inferiority compared to her two best friends-one a wealthy attorney with a picture-perfect family, the other a passionately committed artist-and so does Jen's apparent inability to have a baby, a source of existential panic that begins to affect her marriage and her already precarious status at the office. As Break in Case of Emergency unfolds, a fateful art exhibition, a surreal boondoggle adventure in Belize, and a devastating personal loss conspire to force Jen to reckon with some hard truths about herself and the people she loves most.§§Jessica Winter's ferociously intelligent debut novel is a wry satire of celebrity do-goodism as well as an exploration of the difficulty of navigating friendships as they shift to accommodate marriage and family, and the unspoken tensions that can strain even the strongest bonds.§§From the Hardcover edition.

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Kategoria Książki po angielsku Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Pełny tytuł: Break in Case of Emergency
• Podtytuł: A novel
• Autor: Jessica Winter
• Język: Angielski
• Oprawa: Miękka
• Liczba stron: 288
• EAN: 9780451494221
• ISBN: 0451494229
• ID: 02984282
• Wydawca: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Waga: 248 g
• Wymiary: 203 × 131 × 30 mm
• Data wydania: 25. July 2016

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