Charting the travails of a call-centre salesman suffering under a demented boss, Socrates Adams’ enviable debut takes its place in a line of bleak workplace satires that runs from ‘Bartleby’ through to Christie Malry’s Own Double-Entry, something like Douglas Coupland but far more surreal and far, far funnier.
The novel begins with Ian, the hapless narrator, [...]
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Socrates Adams, Everything’s Fine (Transmission Print, £8.99, 188pp.)
February 17th, 2012 posted by Nicholas Murgatroyd
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