On the clock
On the Clock packs a family saga, a penetrating picture of social inequality, and a coming-of-age story into a compact tale told in two alternating strands. The first follows the 20-year-old narrator's summer job at a fast food franchise and the other shows us moments from her childhood with her fam...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English French |
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New York :
New Directions Publishing,
2025.
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| Edition: | [Trade paperback edition]. |
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| Summary: | On the Clock packs a family saga, a penetrating picture of social inequality, and a coming-of-age story into a compact tale told in two alternating strands. The first follows the 20-year-old narrator's summer job at a fast food franchise and the other shows us moments from her childhood with her family, with a particular focus on her hapless, infuriating, good-hearted father, a low-paid but devoted electrician in a factory. These two skeins sketch out in swift turns two stories of underappreciated work: one covering several decades, the other a summer; one constituting a sort of life, the other a stopgap on the way to something different. |
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| Item Description: | Translation of: En salle. |
| Physical Description: | 97 pages ; 21 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780811239356 |
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