Job Shadowing

by Malcolm Sutton

My slow adaptation is to her a sign of my being ‘outside life.’An unemployed man, losing his ability to imagine a future self, disappears into the shadow world of an ambitious millennial. His wife, an idealistic artist at the turning point of her career, falls deeper and deeper into the gravitational field of her ultra-wealthy employer.Job Shadowing is a novel of our 20th-century desires torn asunder by the new millennium. Through stylish, searching prose, it tests the grounds of impossible love, generational identity and middle-class fantasy.

Genres: Fiction

206 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 26, 2016

Reviews

[Jacob Wren · Rating 5 out of 5]

Job Shadowing is a work of pure, energizing imagination that speaks directly to our times. As we hang on through each plausible yet impossible turn, the parallel worlds Malcolm Sutton effortlessly creates pull us ever-closer to the underlying currents and desires that make the personal political, then twist back around to become deeply personal once again. A book for our shadow-generation and, at the same time, a work of literature that just might subtly help us break free.

[Virginia Eichhorn · Rating 1 out of 5]

Not my kind of book. Couldn’t get into it at all.

[Michael Bryson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Novel, defined as unique, original, unexpected, and this novel is that, a work of imagination that takes you where only the imagination can take you, and it does so in a way that makes you see the world anew. Brilliant.

[dimwig · Rating 3 out of 5]

"i don't know whether to turn away from them, to let the gathering fall into the past, or whether to become absorbed by them."

[Vonetta · Rating 2 out of 5]

This was a little too experimental for my taste. 150 pages in, I realized that I didn't know what was going on because I missed a key sentence somewhere pages and pages ago and I couldn't be bothered to go back and figure out what it was, so I didn't finish it.