Kings of Infinite Space is a hilarious and horrifying spoof on our everyday lives and gives true voice to the old adage, "Work is Hell. The Wild Colonial Boy by James Hynes (9780312204426) - PaperBack - Modern &. Mysterious men lurk about town, wearing thick glasses and pocket protectors. Strange sounds come from the air conditioning vents, the ceiling bulges, a body disappears. For it is not until he begins a tentative romance with the office's sassy mail girl that he begins to notice things are truly wrong. From office politics to bloodthirsty zombies, from classic literary references to a steamy love affair, Hynes erases lines between genres. Hynes has captured many of the realities of office work while contorting them to nightmarish fantasies. And even here, in this land of carpeted partitions and cheap lighting fixtures, Paul cannot escape the curse his life has become. Professor Hynes is the author of five works of fiction: Next, which received the 2011 Believer Book Award from the Believer magazine Kings of Infinite Space, a. Kings of Infinite Space is at turns frightening and laugh-out-loud funny. He's fallen from a top-notch university teaching job, to a textbook publisher, to, eventually, working as a temp writer for the Texas Department of General Services. If he were to be honest with himself, Paul Trilby would have to admit that he's having a bad life. "Immensely witty.thoroughly entertaining."- The Washington Post Book World
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