Reissue of the funniest book of 2000: two weeks in an advertising agency trying to land the Coca-Cola account, told in office emails. e is a tapestry of insincerity, backstabbing and bare-faced bitchiness -- just everyday office politics. Meet: A CEO with an MBA from the Joseph Stalin School of Management A director who is a genius, if only in his own head Creatives with remarkable brains, if only in their trousers A copywriter with the two things an adwoman should never let show -- underarm hair and a conscience Consisting entirely of emails, e spends a few weeks with Miller Shanks as it attempts to land the holy grail of advertising, the account the staff would sell their collective grandmothers to acquire. This is one pitch that nobody will ever forget...

Literature & Fiction

Matt Beaumont

Contemporary

HarperCollins, Publishers

The E Before Christmas

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

HarperCollins Publishers, Ltd

<p>One week in the making of a TV commercial for car tyres -- told by the inimitable Matt Beaumont, author of e It's a simple enough proposition. Blackstock Tyres want to advertise their product on TV. They employ an agency, Scheidt Fuller, with a reputation for innovation and creativity -- and the trouble begins. The director's an auteur, the extras think they're in an art movie and the client keeps changing the script. Worse, the stars of the ad were prime-time sitcom lovers on and off screen, darlings of the media -- until yesterday, and now they can't stand each other. But they're all professionals, right? Who'd have thought an allergy to rubber would be so dramatic?</p>

The Book, the Film, the T-Shirt

HARPER/COLLINS

Carla Browne-1/5/00, 3:05 pm to: All Departmentsre: I'm leaving now . . . but before I go there are some things you should know...!!!! Set in a London ad agency desperate to land a coveted big account, e follows the bureaucratic bungling, cutthroat maneuvers, and outrageous sexual antics of a group of Miller-Shanks employees as they scheme, lie, lust, and claw their way up (and down) the company ladder. Written by a former advertising copywriter, this hilarious, dead-on-target novel marks the debut of a hip and exciting new voice in contemporary fiction. With the click of a mouse, Matt Beaumont brings the novel of letters into the twenty-first century, turning his merciless, unerring eye on today's Machiavellian corporate culture-with uproarious results. Rachel Stevenson, Personnel-1/5/00, 3:09 pmto: Chandra Kapoor cc: David Cruttonre: Urgent: Please delete Carla Browne's ID from e-mail with immediate effect. Thank you.

PerfectBound

Staying Alive

E Squared

BANTAM PRESS

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