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"A naive youth finds his first job as a clerk in the Internal Revenue Service. He finds it difficult to adjust to the jostling workplace where few of his fellow employees take their jobs very seriously. To the youth, the city offers wondrous possibilites, but he feels alienated by the lack of sympathy his fellow clerks show in his ambitions. They are mostly concerned with petty quarrels amd jealousies and all sorts of nit-picking about chairs, clocks, rules, lunchbreaks, tea-times, bundies and other minor office impedimenta. Many of the superior officers could only be classed as eccentric idiots. All this is told in a humorously, satiric fashion. A minor sub-plot concerns the mysterious death of the previous personnel manager. This plot does gather pace towards the climax, tying in with and tying up a few other odd happenings. But despite the fiery climax, the mystery element is but a minor peg in what is basically a comic account of the lack of training and job satisfaction in the business of tax collecting.
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John Reid, Resident Scholar
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Tone of book?
- humorous
Time/era of story
- 1930's-1950's
Life of a profession:
- clerk
Is this an adult or child's book?
- Adult or Young Adult Book
Job/Profession/Status story
Yes
Main Character
Gender
- Male
Profession/status:
- student
Age:
- a teen
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Ethnicity/Nationality
- British
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Main Adversary
Identity:
- an organization
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- throughout most of the book.
Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings?
- 8 (a significant amount)
Asia/Pacific
Yes
Asian country:
- Australia
City?
Yes
Style
Person
- mostly 1st
Accounts of torture and death?
- generic/vague references to death/punishment
Is this an e-book?
Yes
Amount of dialog
- roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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