9780385547222-0385547226-Several People Are Typing: A Novel

Several People Are Typing: A Novel

ISBN-13: 9780385547222
ISBN-10: 0385547226
Author: Calvin Kasulke
Publication date: 2021
Publisher: Doubleday
Format: Hardcover 256 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780385547222
ISBN-10: 0385547226
Author: Calvin Kasulke
Publication date: 2021
Publisher: Doubleday
Format: Hardcover 256 pages

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Several People Are Typing: A Novel (ISBN-13: 9780385547222 and ISBN-10: 0385547226), written by authors Calvin Kasulke, was published by Doubleday in 2021. With an overall rating of 3.9 stars, it's a notable title among other Intranets & Extranets (Networking & Cloud Computing) books. You can easily purchase or rent Several People Are Typing: A Novel (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Intranets & Extranets books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.57.

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A Good Morning America Book Club Pick! • A work-from-home comedy where WFH meets WTF. "An absurd, hilarious romp through the haunted house of late-stage capitalism."—Carmen Maria Machado, author of In the Dream House Told entirely through clever and captivating Slack messages, this irresistible, relatable satire of both virtual work and contemporary life is The Office for a new world.
Gerald, a mid-level employee of a New York–based public relations firm has been uploaded into the company’s internal Slack channels—at least his consciousness has. His colleagues assume it’s an elaborate gag to exploit the new work-from home policy, but now that Gerald’s productivity is through the roof, his bosses are only too happy to let him work from . . . wherever he says he is.
Faced with the looming abyss of a disembodied life online, Gerald enlists his co-worker Pradeep to help him escape, and to find out what happened to his body. But the longer Gerald stays in the void, the more alluring and absurd his reality becomes.
Meanwhile, Gerald’s colleagues have PR catastrophes of their own to handle in the real world. Their biggest client, a high-end dog food company, is in the midst of recalling a bad batch of food that’s allegedly poisoning Pomeranians nationwide. And their CEO suspects someone is sabotaging his office furniture. And if Gerald gets to work from home all the time, why can’t everyone? Is true love possible between two people, when one is just a line of text in an app? And what in the hell does the :dusty-stick: emoji mean?
In a time when office paranoia and politics have followed us home, Calvin Kasulke is here to capture the surprising, absurd, and fully-relatable factors attacking our collective sanity…and give us hope that we can still find a human connection.
Review
A Financial Times Best Science Fiction Book of 2021A New Scientist Best Book of 2021
"An absurd, hilarious romp through the haunted house of late-stage capitalism." --
Carmen Maria Machado, author of In the Dream House and Her Body and Other Parties

Several People Are Typing is fun, funny, addictive, and surreal…I blazed through it in an hour, came up for air, and then immediately blazed through it again.”--
The New Yorker
"Gloriously inventive. . .Reminiscent of the perfectly realized drudgery of Joshua Ferris'
Then We Came to the End (2006) and the gothic happenings of David Foster Wallace's
The Pale King (2011), this is a workplace comedy that brilliantly captures the era of remote work. . .A poignant depiction of the always-on nature of the contemporary workplace. Kasulke's ear for dialogue is remarkable as he truly captures the injokes, asides, and odd language of Slack communication. Funny, relatable, and incredibly timely, this is a hugely entertaining debut." -
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Booklist, *starred review*
“An existential romp with a wicked sense of humor, Calvin Kasulke’s debut novel is a Greek chorus of modern strife, a workplace of woebegone souls. It asks the important questions, like what it means to be a person, but also, what it means to be a gif.
Several People Are Typing is a dirge for bureaucracy told by one of the funniest new writers @here.” --
Hilary Leichter, author of Temporary"[An] extremely meta debut novel that feels like just the right amount of triggering after working from home for the last 17 months." --
Nylon

Several People Are Typing is the first novel I've read that feels written of, about, and inside the internet. With cursed spreadsheets, pregnant lizards, backchannel smack-talk, :dusty_sticks:, and the creepiest gifs in American literature, Calvin Kasulke doesn't just commit to the bit; the bit commits to him. If you've ever felt imprisoned by work, the internet, or your mortal body, buy this book twice.” --
Tony Tulathimutte, author of Private Citizens
"Calvin Kasulke knows what makes a spooky story good. Questions like: Is that thing real? Is he possessed? What otherworldly realm is this? W

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