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The Beautiful Bureaucrat

English

By (author): Helen Phillips

A New York Times Notable Book Best book of the year in the New York Times, Bustle, Time Out, The Atlantic, Slate, Electric Literature'Funny, sad, scary and beautiful. I love it' Ursula K. Le Guin
If the job market hadn't been so bleak during that long, humid summer, Josephine might have been discouraged from taking the administrative position in a windowless building in a remote part of town.
As the days inch by and the files stack up, Josephine feels increasingly anxious in her surroundings - the drone of keyboards echoes eerily down the long halls, her boss has terrible breath, and there are cockroaches in the bath of her sublet. When one evening her husband Joseph disappears and then returns, offering no explanation as to his whereabouts, her creeping unease shifts decidedly to dread.
Both chilling and poignant, this novel asks the biggest questions about marriage and fidelity, birth and death. Helen Phillips twists the world we know and shows it back to us full of meaning and wonder - luminous and new. See more
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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 28 Jun 2018
  • Publisher: Pushkin Press
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781782273653

About Helen Phillips

Helen Phillips is the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer's Award the Italo Calvino Prize and more. She is the author of the widely acclaimed The Beautiful Bureaucrat. Her debut collection And Yet They Were Happy was named a notable book by The Story Prize. Her work has appeared in Tin House Electric Literature and The New York Times. An assistant professor of creative writing at Brooklyn College she lives in Brooklyn with her husband and children.

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