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“I have probably read Adelle Waldman’s sharp and perceptive Brooklyn comedy of manners The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. half a dozen times already, so I can’t wait for her long-awaited follow-up, Help Wanted, which will be out mid-March in the US and at the end of the month in the UK. It’s been billed as ‘a humane and darkly comic workplace caper’ following the lives of those working an early morning shift at a big-box store in upstate New York.” Read more...
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