Apathy and Other Small Victories (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780312352196)

A scathingly funny debut novel about disillusionment, indifference, and one man's desperate fight to assign absolutely no meaning to modern life.

The only thing Shane cares about is leaving. Usually on a Greyhound bus, right before his life falls apart again. Just like he planned. But this time it's complicated: there's a sadistic corporate climber who thinks she's his girlfriend, a rent-subsidized affair with his landlord's wife, and the bizarrely appealing deaf assistant to Shane's cosmically unstable dentist.

When one of the women is murdered, and Shane is the only suspect who doesn't care enough to act like he didn't do it, the question becomes just how he'll clear the good name he never had and doesn't particularly want: his own.

"The malaise of cubicle culture may be well-trodden comedic territory by now, but Neilan's debut skewers office life with a flourish for the grotesque." --The Village Voice

Author: Paul Neilan
ISBN-10: 0312352190
ISBN-13: 9780312352196
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Language: English
Published: 06/26/2007
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.39lbs
Size: 7.14h x 6.62w x 0.64d