Author:Jeremy Blachman
He's a hiring partner at one of the world's largest law firms. Brilliant yet ruthless, he has little patience for associates who leave the office before midnight or steal candy from the bowl on his secretary's desk. He hates holidays and paralegals. And he's just started a web-blog to tell the world about what life is really like at the top of his profession.
Meet Anonymous Lawyer - corner office, granite desk, and a billable rate of $675 an hour. The summer is about to start, and he's got a new crop of law school interns who will soon sign away their lives for a six-figure salary at the firm. But he's also got a few problems that require his attention. There's The Jerk, his bitter rival at the firm, who is determined to do whatever it takes to beat him out for the chairman's job. There's Anonymous Wife, who is spending his money as fast as he can make it. And there's that secret blog he's writing, which is a perverse bit of fun until he gets an e-mail from someone inside the firm who knows he's its author.
Written in the form of a blog, Anonymous Lawyer is a fiendishly clever and hilarious debut that rips away the bland façade of corporate law and offers a telling glimpse inside a frightening world.
Stocked with up-to-the-minute references, and exposing, as it does, our culture's mania to win at all costs, ANONYMOUS LAWYER has pierced the heart of a moment in our social history
—— New York PostA rather entertaining satirical debut that offers an exposé of the lives of US corporate lawyers and what really goes on behind closed doors
—— www.bookbag.co.uk'Pop Larkin, Ma and their progeny . . . are essentially English of the rich and ribald England of Chaucer and Shakespeare. A superb and timeless comedy'
—— - , ScotsmanAs funny as Evelyn Waugh and as enchanting as Laurie Lee's Cider with Rosie. Don't miss it
—— - , HeraldThe Larkins live - these novels please us by escaping definition
—— - , GuardianLike Wodehouse's Jeeves, Bates' Larkins must continue in their own delightful milieu - the Kentish countryside
—— - , New York TimesPoignant prose... her novels have always contained the unexpected, but lately they've gained a grittiness which suits the everyday subject matter that lies at the heart of her writing
—— GlamourPlayful, unguessable and clever
—— Sunday ExpressIntelligent and humane, and there's never a word out of place
—— Evening StandardBeautifully written, and her treatment of the generation gap between parents and offspring is observed with all the unforced empathy that has become her hallmark
—— ObserverA compulsively readable tragi-comedy of empty nest syndrome... never a dull moment
—— Katie Owen , Sunday TelegraphA feisty read you won't want to put down
—— WomanA must-read for empty nesters ... this is Trollope at her most poignant
—— Guernsey Now
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