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e
a novel
- Author: Matt Beaumont
- Category: Fiction Commercial Debut
- Pub date: 1 September 2000
About e
Depicts the Machiavellian scheming and summary sackings of the ad world in withering detail and with no shortage of dead-eye wit
- THE TIMES
An unforgettable first novel, an author to shout about, a campaign to ensure that everyone knows this is the funniest, sharpest read of the year. Consisting entirely of staff emails, e spends a fortnight in the company of Miller Shanks, an advertising agency that scales dizzying peaks of incompetence. Among the cast are a CEO with an MBA from the Joseph Stalin School of Management, a Creative Director who is a genius, if only in his own head, designers and copywriters driven by breasts, beer or Bach Flower Remedies, and secretaries who drip honey and spit blood. The novel is a tapestry of insincerity, backstabbing and bare-arsed bitchiness: that is to say, everyday office politics. Oh yes, and there is some work to be done too—the quest for advertising’s Eldorado, the Coca-Cola account. e is sleazy, scurrilous and scabrously funny. It also contains a first-class joke about the Pope and sound advice on the maintenance of industrial carpet tiles.
About the Author
Matt Beaumont is the author of five novels. His first, E, a prescient tale of e culture and office life, was an international bestseller and is just about to go into production as a major TV series in the States. SMALL WORLD is his most recent novel. He lives in London with his wife, the writer Maria Beaumont, and their children