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Since the Layoffs: A Novel
By Iain Levison
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
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This “dark, satirical comedy [is] written with the deadpan humor Levison used so well in his first book, A Working Stiff’s Manifesto” (USA Today).
Jake Skowran has been laid off from his job as a factory supervisor. Fortunately, he’s been offered other work. Unfortunately, it is as a hired killer.
Beset by creditors and filled with fury over his situation, Jake decides he has little choice except to take it. He is going to carve off a piece of the economy or die trying . . .
“Like Donald Westlake in The Ax, about an insurance executive turned hit man, Levison brings a burning rage to this accomplished debut novel.” —Booklist
“[A] black comedy of morals cracking in a lousy economy.” —The New York Times Book Review
Jake Skowran has been laid off from his job as a factory supervisor. Fortunately, he’s been offered other work. Unfortunately, it is as a hired killer.
Beset by creditors and filled with fury over his situation, Jake decides he has little choice except to take it. He is going to carve off a piece of the economy or die trying . . .
“Like Donald Westlake in The Ax, about an insurance executive turned hit man, Levison brings a burning rage to this accomplished debut novel.” —Booklist
“[A] black comedy of morals cracking in a lousy economy.” —The New York Times Book Review
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3.5/5
34 ratings2 reviews
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Brilliant novel : witty, funny... just great !
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5An adroitly written and crisply plotted novel, "Since the Layoffs" also contains good dialogue and smart social observation, while telling the tale of a downsized Midwesterner who claws his way back into the middle class as an assassin. All his victims deserve what they get, more or less, but the tale leaves the reader feeling puzzled about whether or not she should feel good about the ending.
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