{"product_id":"9780008589172","title":"Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind","description":"Author: Molly McGhee\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780008589172\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: HarperCollins Publishers\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 13 Aug 2025\u003cbr\u003ePages: 368\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Trippy, incisive, riotously funny’ ALEXANDRA KLEEMAN\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘[An] insightfully nightmarish parable ' HALLE BUTLER\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A stunner’ NANA KWAME ADJEI-BRENYAH\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Luminous … as if George Saunders infiltrated the \u003cem\u003eSeverance\u003c\/em\u003e writers’ room’ \u003cem\u003eWASHINGTON POST\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA work place novel. A love story. A dream you can’t wake from…\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJonathan Abernathy is a loser. Unemployed and behind on his student loan repayments, the only thing Abernathy has in abundance is debt.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen a secretive government loan forgiveness programme offers him a job he can literally do in his sleep, Abernathy thinks he’s found his big break. He finds himself entering the dreams of white-collar workers to audit them – flagging their anxieties for removal at night so they'll be more productive in the day.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut as the lines between life and work, right and wrong, and even sleep and consciousness blur, Abernathy begins to wonder just how much he might have signed away …\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWildly imaginative, laced with black humour and full of close-to-the-bone truths, \u003cem\u003eJonathan Abernathy You Are Kind\u003c\/em\u003e is the cult workplace novel that’s like nothing else you've read before.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Surrealist … A scathing critique of capitalism’ \u003cem\u003eTIME\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'\u003c\/em\u003eImagine the movie \u003cem\u003eInception\u003c\/em\u003e, but populated by the middle-management workers in David Graeber’s book \u003cem\u003eBullshit Jobs' \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'An excitingly original writer, inventing much needed and killingly funny satires for contemporary work and dreams of success' HOLLY PESTER\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘A revelation’ HILARY LEICHTER\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘An original mind brimming over with invention’ BEN MARCUS\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘An exuberant, poignant, freewheeling debut … very funny’ JEFF VANDERMEER\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘The spiritual sibling of Severance, but creepier’ \u003cem\u003eLITERARY HUB\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46665229140126,"sku":"HPC-9780008589172","price":24.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9780008589172.jpg?v=1775101408","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9780008589172","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}