Results for: books tagged ‘Workplace’
Harry and Me: Nigel Williams
Sweet Smell of Success: Ernest Lehman
With lines so sharp you could shave yourself with them, Sweet Smell of Success is the smartest, most cynical American film of the 1950s. Written by Ernest Lehman (North by ... More
The Apartment: I. A. L. Diamond
Billy Wilder won two Oscars - as co-screenwriter and director - for this mordant comedy about getting ahead in the corporate world. Jack Lemmon played the 'schnook' who lends out ... More
Three Dollars: Elliot Perlman
Eddie is an honest, compassionate man who finds himself, at the age of thirty-eight, with a wife, a child, and three dollars. How did he get that way? He is ... More
Clerks: Kevin Smith
The award-winning debut feature of self-taught US auteur Kevin Smith, Clerks is set in and around that well-known hub of the social universe, a convenience store in suburban New Jersey. ... More
The Reasons I Won't Be Coming: Elliot Perlman
Funny and brilliantly astute, Elliot Perlman's stories dissect the modern world of downsizing, anxiety and sexual confusion. The Reasons I Won't be Coming explores the complex lives of lovers, poets, ... More
Clerks & Chasing Amy: Kevin Smith
The screenplays to two films by one of the bright hopes of American independent film. Clerks is set in and about a convenience store in suburban New Jersey and revolves ... More
The Slab Boys Trilogy: John Byrne
Spanning the 1950s to the 70s, the plays capture the rebellious mood of a post-war generation growing up to a backdrop of James Dean, Elvis, sharp-suited glamour, hope and despair.John ... More
Why Most Things Fail: Paul Ormerod
From the best-selling author of The Death of Economics and Butterfly Economics, a ground-breaking look at a truth all too seldom acknowledged: most commercial and public policy ventures will not ... More
The Omega Force: Rick Moody
Rick Moody offers a stunningly diverse trio of stories:'The Albertine Notes' presents a cataclysmic vision of New York City after the levelling of fifty square blocks of Manhattan by a ... More
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