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Microserfs

By (author): Douglas Coupland
Published by: HarperPerennial
Publication date: 15/Mar/2004
Format: Paperback - 384 pages
Product dimensions (mm): 197 x 130
ISBN-10: 0007179812
ISBN-13: 9780007179817
Categories:
    > Fiction
    > General & Literary Fiction
    > Douglas Coupland

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From the acclaimed author of Hey Nostradamus! comes a wonderful comic novel with 'more one-liners than a decade of Woody Allen films' (Guardian), about the scramble for love and success in a brave new world...Bill is wise. Bill is kind. Bill is benevolent. Bill, Be My Friend...Please!At computer giant Microsoft, Dan, Susan, Abe, Todd and Bug are struggling to get a life. The job may be super cool, the pay may be astronomical, but they're heading nowhere, and however hard they work, however many shares they earn, they're never going to be as rich as Bill. And besides, with all the hours they're putting in, their best relationships are on e-mail. Something's got to give...

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[This book is] about a handful of misfit Microsoft employees who realize that theydon't have lives and subsequently become determined to get lives inside the ...

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