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The Jacket Trick
THE JACKET TRICK
The Jacket Trick is the heartbreaking and hilarious story about Hugs, who rebels against the tyranny of office work and starts writing a novel during company hours. Pretty soon he finds himself in a Kafkaesque struggle - with his boss on his tail, his girlfriend on his back, and his sanity increasingly on the line as he has to keep lying to everyone to avoid the inevitable implosion of everything he knows.
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Hugs Melgren always wanted to be a writer but like so many others he finds himself stuck in an unfulfilling office job. His career is going well, there are plans for a house and a baby, all promising a safe and comfortable life. But is it the one he really wants? Time flies by, the dream of becoming a writer keeps haunting him, but he finds himself just getting older and further away from it every day. One day he snaps and decides to risk everything, his job, his relationship, even his sanity, to fulfill his dream.
The Jacket Trick is a book about never giving up on your dreams... about being a frustrated artist forced to live in the real world, about mid-life crisis, about cheating your way through an office job... and, oh yes, about sex...
The Jacket Trick is the heartbreaking and hilarious story about Hugs, who rebels against the tyranny of office work and starts writing a novel during company hours. Pretty soon he finds himself in a Kafkaesque struggle - with his boss on his tail, his girlfriend on his back, and his sanity increasingly on the line as he has to keep lying to everyone to avoid the inevitable implosion of everything he knows.
FROM THE PRINT EDITION
Hugs Melgren always wanted to be a writer but like so many others he finds himself stuck in an unfulfilling office job. His career is going well, there are plans for a house and a baby, all promising a safe and comfortable life. But is it the one he really wants? Time flies by, the dream of becoming a writer keeps haunting him, but he finds himself just getting older and further away from it every day. One day he snaps and decides to risk everything, his job, his relationship, even his sanity, to fulfill his dream.
The Jacket Trick is a book about never giving up on your dreams... about being a frustrated artist forced to live in the real world, about mid-life crisis, about cheating your way through an office job... and, oh yes, about sex...
284 pages, Kindle Edition
First published April 10, 2014
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André Hansson
3 books11 followersAndré Hansson is a Swedish-British author, born in 1976. He debuted in 2014 with The Jacket Trick and currently lives in London. Dome is his second novel.
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