Resumen
David Gates collects 21 examples of writing about a part of life that many writers prefer to ignore or make peripheral: the world of the nine-to-five, of going to the workplace every day in order to make a living. Here we have realtors, theme-park workers, newspaper reporters, office drones, carpenters, and elevator operators, in stories and novel excerpts by writers as diverse as William Burroughs, William Faulkner, Gertrude Stein, Lynne Tillman, George Saunders, Joseph Heller, Toni Morrison, and Edith Wharton.<
