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Truth in Advertising
John Kenney
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Description for Truth in Advertising
Paperback. In the spirit of Then We Came to the End and This Is Where I Leave You, John Kenney mines his own advertising background to create this moving debut. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 286 x 23. Weight in Grams: 270.
Finbar Dolan is lost and lonely. Except he doesn't know it. Despite escaping his blue-collar Boston upbringing to carve out a mildly successful career at a Madison Avenue ad agency, he's a bit of a mess and closing in on forty. He's recently called off his wedding. Now, a few days before Christmas, he's forced to cancel a long-postponed vacation in order to write, produce, and edit a Superbowl commercial for his diaper account in record time. Fortunately, it gets worse. He learns that his long-estranged and once-abusive father has fallen ill. And that neither his ... Read more
Finbar Dolan is lost and lonely. Except he doesn't know it. Despite escaping his blue-collar Boston upbringing to carve out a mildly successful career at a Madison Avenue ad agency, he's a bit of a mess and closing in on forty. He's recently called off his wedding. Now, a few days before Christmas, he's forced to cancel a long-postponed vacation in order to write, produce, and edit a Superbowl commercial for his diaper account in record time. Fortunately, it gets worse. He learns that his long-estranged and once-abusive father has fallen ill. And that neither his ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781472152107
SKU
V9781472152107
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About John Kenney
John Kenney has worked as a copywriter in New York City for seventeen years. He has also been a contributor to The New Yorker magazine since 1999. Some of his work appears in a collection of The New Yorker's humor writing, Disquiet, Please! He lives in Brooklyn, New York. Visit ByJohnKenney.com.
Reviews for Truth in Advertising
A former copywriter, Kenney knows this world and skewers it with deadly accuracy.
Sunday Herald
With wry humor, always on point, Kenney guides us through the maze of work, family, love (elusive) and friendship (a lifesaver). This is an outstanding debut
Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
A masterful blend of wit and seriousness, stunning in its honesty. ... Read more
Sunday Herald
With wry humor, always on point, Kenney guides us through the maze of work, family, love (elusive) and friendship (a lifesaver). This is an outstanding debut
Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
A masterful blend of wit and seriousness, stunning in its honesty. ... Read more