Bibliograph

The knockoff, a novel, Lucy Sykes and Jo Piazza

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Label

The knockoff, a novel, Lucy Sykes and Jo Piazza

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The knockoff

Oclc number

889522847

Responsibility statement

Lucy Sykes and Jo Piazza

Sub title

a novel

Summary

When Imogen returns to work at Glossy after six months away, she can barely recognize her own magazine. Eve, fresh out of Harvard Business School, has fired "the gray hairs", put the managing editor in a supply closet, stopped using the landlines, and hired a bevy of manicured and questionably attired underlings who text and tweet their way through meetings. Imogen, darling of the fashion world, may have Alexander Wang and Diane von Furstenberg on speed dial, but she can't tell Facebook from Foursquare and once got her iPhone stuck in Japanese for two days. Under Eve's reign, Glossy is rapidly becoming a digital sweatshop - hackathons rage all night, girls who sleep get fired, and "fun" means mandatory, company-wide coordinated dances to Beyonc?. Wildly out of her depth, Imogen faces a choice - pack up her Smythson notebooks and quit, or channel her inner geek and take on Eve to save both the magazine and her career

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