- Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: Washington Square Press; Reprint edition (Oct 4 2005)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0743266862
- ISBN-13: 978-0743266864
- Product Dimensions: 21 x 13.6 x 2.2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 318 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #448,898 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From Publishers Weekly
McLaughlin and Kraus (The Nanny Diaries) are back with another tale of woe featuring a 20-something New Yorker searching for a way out of her miserable life. This hyperventilating satire features Girl, an ambitious feminist whose well-known girl-empowering boss saddles Girl with the worst tasks, steals her ideas and finally cans her for speaking out. After a desperate search, Girl is hired for a dream job with a matching dream salary. As the Director of Rebranding Knowledge Acquisition for My Company, she doesn't exactly know what she's supposed to do, but it involves dodgy activities with her boss and being made over to fit in with a new California client. "You're lucky to even be here.... We're about to buy you a few thousand dollars' worth of suits. So just go try on the Goddamn bikini.... Honey, what're ya gonna do about the bush?" As work goes from bad to worse, the only light in Girl's tunnel is Buster—a sweet boy/man who creates video games for a living and who fluctuates between fleeing Girl and being there for her. But when a new boss takes My Company into a whole new darker direction (think sex industry), Girl is forced to make a decision between morals and money. Though witty and biting in spots, this bitter tale is too schematic and strident to be much fun.
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Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Booklist
When Girl, our heroine, is fired from her job making copies and collating files at a dismal nonprofit agency, she's faced with an employers-take-all economy, in which scores of desperate, overqualified applicants compete for each available job. Finally, she's hired by a women's Web portal called My Company to bolster its credibility with the feminist community. Girl thinks she's lucked into her dream job, but this is a world in which the bosses' rule is absolute. Under the high-strung command of My Company's director, Guy, Girl quickly finds her hopes and her principles crumbling as she's forced into a series of increasingly degrading scenarios just to keep drawing a paycheck. McLaughlin and Kraus deftly satirize postfeminist, postmodern, twenty-first-century America, using management jargon and hipster slang with equal precision. More remarkable is the subtlety with which Girl's story moves from the dreary-yet-familiar world of demanding bosses and unrewarding work into the realm of nightmares. The authors have conjured up a vision of America that's just this side of dystopian, and their funhouse-mirror worldview generates its own strange suspense. Given the runaway success of their Nanny Diaries (2002), expect high demand for this unsettling novel. Meredith Parets
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Best Book I've readin years,
By Beth (Ohio) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Citizen Girl: A Novel (Hardcover)
I just finished Citizen Girl...and I adored it. At work I read to kill time and I found myself annoyed when I actually had a customer come in because I literally didn't want to put the book down. I finished it in a record (for me) 2 days. The main character Girl is easy to relate to and the detail rich story painted a gallery quality picture in my head. Being a Twentysomething girl myself going through the moral questioning task of finding a career I found this book like a self portrait of my feelings. LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!
2.0 out of 5 stars
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This review is from: Citizen Girl (Hardcover)
[Cross-posted on LibraryThing]This was written by the same authors who gave us The Nanny Diaries, which I actually enjoyed very much. So, when I saw this book on display at the library, I picked it up thinking I'd end up with something similar to Nanny Diaries: a funny and clever take on corporate life and office politics, with a warm-fuzzy heart. Unfortunately, what this book has absolutely none of is heart. None of the characters are likeable, most of what they do makes no sense, and there is no coherent plot to tie any of the disparate elements of the novel together. The book is marketed as a satire of Corporate America and it supposedly pokes fun at office life with a heroine that we can all relate to. Not so much. The novel actually tries to cover several topics at once, never really settling on any one focus. And the heroine? Also makes no sense. She's obviously smart but makes very stupid decisions. I debated giving up on it about a third of the way in but this book was the kind of bad that you can't put down; you have to keep going just to see how bad it's going to get. Yes, there were a few clever parts and I did laugh here and there but mostly, I rolled my eyes and thought 'WTF?'
2.0 out of 5 stars
Don't waste your time,
By Chick Lit Guru (Calgary, AB Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Citizen Girl (Audio Cassette)
This book is confusing and not very well written. The plot is uninteresting and it is difficult to sympathize with the main character when you don't really understand her situation. This book was given to me as a gift, I haven't read the Nanny Diaries and I definitely won't. This was a disappointing book that I found difficult to read. Jane Green would be a much better choice for your next chick-lit book.
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