Young British Slacker.Young British Slacker Andrew Osmond Andrew Osmond is a contemporary British novelist. Literary career Osmond is the author of cult fiction titles: Twitcher (Minnow Press, 2001), Big Fish (2003), High (2004) (ISBN 0953944824) and Young British Slacker (2006). Minnow minnow, common name for the Cyprinidae, a large family of freshwater fish which includes the carp (Cyprinus carpio), and of which there are some 300 American species. The European minnow is Phoxinus phoxinus. Press 66 Harwoods Road, Watford, Herts, England, WD18 7RE 0953944840 $8.99 Featuring a handful of sketchy illustrations in black-and-white, Young British Slacker is an unusual novel written in second person--always addressing the reader, i.e. "You will never be the best. It is to your credit that you have accepted this fact ... Ambition is bad. Admit it. It was a relief to give up the dream." Describing at length the drudgery of a day in a cubicle with almost appalling vividity, Young British Slacker compels the reader's attention with its unique writing style and tactile-perfect realism in its capture of the stream-of-consciousness thoughts and emotions of a wage slave wage slave n. A wage earner whose livelihood is completely dependent on the wages earned. . An eye-opening novel, definitely written to the beat of a different drummer Different Drummer Thoreau’s eloquent prose poem on the inner freedom and individualistic character of man. [Am. Lit.: NCE, 2739] See : Individualism . |
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