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Highlights
- A quest for institutional survival, two subversive corporate employees, Sid Sidney a technician and Mia Monroe a would-be shadow artist, get caught up in the undertow of office-speak and bastardized metrics tracking printer glitches, insurance profits, lab's birdseed expenses, and pigeons' ping pong scores.
- Author(s): Steve Putnam
- 282 Pages
- Fiction + Literature Genres, Absurdist
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About the Book
The Academy of Reality tells a near future tale of corporate control taken to its extreme, with two idealists and a pigeon just trying to get by.
Book Synopsis
A quest for institutional survival, two subversive corporate employees, Sid Sidney a technician and Mia Monroe a would-be shadow artist, get caught up in the undertow of office-speak and bastardized metrics tracking printer glitches, insurance profits, lab's birdseed expenses, and pigeons' ping pong scores. HR makes things worse, tasking Sid and Mia to co-author an employee benefits booklet, Fifty Places to Picnic.Mia's bio clock and Sid's world population clock blip in-the-moment numbers on tablets, a battle of Darwinian proportions. Although humans and pigeons already overpopulate the Institute, Mia wants a baby.
Review Quotes
Immediately distinctive writing, with a deadpan, linguistically inventive voice that has a dark view of the world.... it's brilliant and should be praised as unlike anything that's gone before.-Roger King, author of Horizontal Hotel, A Girl from Zanaibar, and Love and Fatigue in America
Dimensions (Overall): 8.5 Inches (H) x 5.5 Inches (W) x .7 Inches (D)
Weight: .66 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 282
Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres
Sub-Genre: Absurdist
Publisher: Madville Publishing LLC
Format: Paperback
Author: Steve Putnam
Language: English
Street Date: October 15, 2024
TCIN: 94347339
UPC: 9781956440997
Item Number (DPCI): 247-27-9878
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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