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Wrong Way : A Novel by Joanne McNeil (2023, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherFarrar, Straus & Giroux

ISBN-100374610665

ISBN-139780374610661

eBay Product ID (ePID)13058357455

Product Key Features

Book TitleWrong Way : a Novel

Number of Pages288 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2023

TopicLiterary

GenreFiction

AuthorJoanne Mcneil

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight7.4 Oz

Item Length7.4 in

Item Width5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2023-021276

Reviews" A Ballardian tale of pristine corporate campuses and aspirational product marketing, Wrong Way reveals to us the very human cost of the AI future we've already been sold and makes us question how many lies and absurdities we're willing to accept in order to try to feel like we belong here. Subtle and beautiful, Joanne McNeil's masterful debut is a powerful example of what the contemporary novel can and should be in our endlessly perplexing times." --Tim Maughan, author of Infinite Detail "No one understands the dark side of the gifts offered by billionaire tech gurus better than Joanne McNeil. With Wrong Way , our most prescient tech critic has turned to fiction, giving us a glimpse of a near future defined less by wondrous new gadgets and genius AI than by with the pretense of innovation slapped on ever more alienating work done by people who remain, despite everything, human. In prose at times dreamy and lacerating, McNeil shows us what's coming, and how easily we might wind up accepting it." --Sarah Jaffe, author of Work Won't Love You Back " Wrong Way is a chilling portrait of economic precarity, and a disturbing reminder of how attempts to optimize life and work leave us all alienated ." --Adrienne Westenfeld, Esquire "[A] sharply observed, extremely well-written novel." -- Kirkus Reviews "A warm beatin heart drives this smart and timely tale." -- Publishers Weekly

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal813.6

SynopsisNamed a Best Book of 2023 by the New Yorker and one of the Top 20 Best Books of 2023 by Esquire magazine. For years, Teresa has passed from one job to the next, settling into long stretches of time, struggling to build her career in any field or unstick herself from an endless cycle of labor. The dreaded move from one gig to another is starting to feel unbearable. When a recruiter connects her with a contract position at AllOver, it appears to check all her prerequisites for a "good" job. It's a fintech corporation with progressive hiring policies and a social justice-minded mission statement. Their new service for premium members: a functional fleet of driverless cars. The future of transportation. As her new-hire orientation reveals, the distance between AllOver's claims and its actions is wide, but the lure of financial stability and a flexible schedule is enough to keep Teresa driving forward. Joanne McNeil, who often reports on how the human experience intersects with labor and technology brings blazing compassion and criticism to Wrong Way , examining the treacherous gaps between the working and middle classes wrought by the age of AI. Within these divides, McNeil turns the unsaid into the unignorable, and captures the existential perils imposed by a nonstop, full-service gig economy.

LC Classification NumberPS3613.C58598W76