This book is a major study of the presentation of work and workers
in contemporary novels from India, North America and the UK.
Drawing on lively recent theories about work, it shows how the
novel is a crucial form for helping us to understand what work
means in contemporary society. It tackles some of the most urgent
questions of contemporary life by examining the stories about work
that novels produce. Including detailed readings of authors such as
Douglas Coupland, David Foster Wallace, Joshua Ferris, Arivand
Adiga, Chetan Bhagat and Monica Ali it explores how the
presentation of fictional characters lays open the experience of
insecure and precarious existence in the contemporary era. This
study illustrates that novels provide an essential tool for
understanding what work is and how we feel when we do it.
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