On the Clock (Paperback)

Claire Baglin

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Lingua: inglese

Editore: New Directions Publishing Corporation, New York, 2025

0811239357 / 9780811239356

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Paperback. Claire Baglins 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 narrators 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 with an upside-down smile. 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 (the narrator is a college student). With a keen eye for eloquent details and sharp ear for workplace jargon, her dry humor, and a crisp compelling style, Baglins depiction of their lives is particularly rich, at once affectionate and alienated. Working the alternating strands in a way reminiscent of Georges Perecs W or the The Memory of Childhood, the past is remarkably vivid in On the Clock: her childhood memories of their bleak small town and of summer vacations spent at campgrounds by the sea in Brittany. And the present blazes in scenes of the young womans current fast-food trial: the awful boss, the nasty manager, and all the tedium and horror of dead-end work:Slowly the oven door opens and a nursery-school tune announces that the salad rolls can come out [and] Im mired in the heart of pointlessness. I stick a straw into the whipped cream but dont take off the end of the paper wrapper so theyll know it hasnt been used, Im conscientious. A marvelous debut from the hugely talented young French writer Claire Baglin, this tender and painful portrait of working-class life finds shards of poetry inside the twin hardships of poverty and service work Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Titolo
On the Clock (Paperback)
Autore
Claire Baglin
Editore
New Directions Publishing Corporation, New York
Anno di pubblicazione
2025
Condizione
new
Rilegatura
Paperback
Lingua
inglese
ISBN 10
0811239357
ISBN 13
9780811239356

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