![]() 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. Mysterious men lurk about town, wearing thick glasses and pocket protectors. but Hynes is best known for his three subsequent books, Publish and Perish, The Lecturers Tale, and Kings of Infinite Space, which combine satire and. A Novel Author (s) James Hynes Publisher St. 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. This is much more than the saga of a man dealing with a nightmare of a. And even here, in this land of carpeted partitions and cheap lighting fixtures, Paul cannot escape the curse his life has become. Indeed, his tale is an uphill battle fighting off co-workers, girlfriends, and ghosts. 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. ![]() ![]() McPherson, winner of the 1978 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. "Immensely witty.thoroughly entertaining."- The Washington Post Book World James Hynes, author of THE LECTURERS TALE, KINGS OF INFINITE SPACE, and PUBLISH AND. ![]()
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