Jennifer Government

a novel

321 pages

English language

Published Dec. 24, 2003 by Doubleday.

ISBN:
978-0-385-50759-2
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In Barry's twisted, hilarious vision of the near future, the world is run by giant American corporations and employees take the last name of the companies they work for. Hot on the trail of John Nike, an executive from the land of Marketing, is agent Jennifer Government, the consumer watchdog from hell.

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On my re-read of this turbo-capitalist dystopia, I no longer find it as poignant as I did the first time around. It's still a great book with an interesting world, in which government has to compete in the marketplace of rampant consumerism, but I wish there was more exploration into the history of this world, and how it ended up this way.

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Subjects

  • Capitalism -- Fiction