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Minding the store : great writing about business, from Tolstoy to now / edited by Robert Coles and Albert LaFarge.

New York : New Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton, ©2008.

xi, 303 pages ; 24 cm

"Here is a comprehensive, authoritative, and magnificently entertaining anthology of literary reflections on the world of business in all its complexity and variety." "Minding the Store goes beyond charts, formulas, and case studies and gets to the heart of the matter: the agonies and triumphs of selling, the art of survival in the cutthroat world of the multinational conglomerate, the dismaying absurdities of office life - in short, the full spectrum of enigmas, ethical conflicts, and occasional moments of insight that animate the world of commerce."--BOOK JACKET.

Business -- Fiction.

Short stories, American.

Short stories.

Short stories.

Coles, Robert.

LaFarge, Albert.

Are these actual miles? / Raymond Carver -- The hardware man / John O'Hara -- John Henry days / Colson Whitehead -- Fully utilized / Steven C. Lo -- Youngblood Hawke / Herman Wouk -- Give the devils no mercy / William H. Whyte -- The office in which I work / Joseph Heller -- My neighbor / Franz Kafka -- Volunteer slavery / Jill Nelson -- Uppity buppie / Gwendolyn M. Parker -- The moviegoer / Walker Percy -- The housebreaker of Shady Hill / John Cheever -- Janus / Ann Beattie -- Babbitt rising / Sinclair Lewis -- The rich man's house / Jean Thompson -- Good country people / Flannery O'Connor -- The loser / Michael Thomas -- Money / James Agee -- I was dropped / Studs Terkel -- The man higher up / O. Henry -- Death of a salesman / Arthur Miller -- An outpost of progress / Joseph Conrad -- My uncle's death / John Updike -- Master and man / Leo Tolstoy.

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