Everyone in Tom Ryder’s life is passionate about something… His girlfriend is extremely body-conscious. His uncle prides himself on a clean, well-stocked store. His mother has the church. His co-workers believe in the importance of their vocation. Tom, however, believes in nothing very deeply. Until he finds a method that could kick-start his career in life insurance sales. What could it hurt?
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Reviews
Somewhere between Glengarry Glen Ross and Fargo, between Office Space and Fight Club, Baldry exudes in rich tones the familiar neurosis of relationships and careers and the quiet hell of modernity. With sullen desperation, Tom Ryders sickness of normalcy turns inevitably toward an obsessive self-consciously misanthropic trauma of stupidity. In a time when having to explain oneself to one’s girlfriend is considered a worse alternative to spending a night in jail, one must look inward for answers. But perhaps they are answering the wrong questions.
– Ken Goudsward, Author of Symphony Of Destruction
File under: Dark Comedy, Transgressive Fiction, Murder, Sociopathy
Recommended If You Like: Fight Club, Dexter, Breaking Bad, Fargo, Seven Psychopaths, In Bruge, the Big Lebowski, Trainspotting, Cat’s Cradle, Office Space, Dumb and Dumber