The Customer is Always Wrong
The Retail Chronicles
$24.99
- Paperback
184 pages
- Release Date
1 October 2008
Summary
From mom-and-pop general stores to big-box, strip-mall chains, it is impossible to consider the American experience without thinking about the buying-and-selling retail culture- the sales and the stockrooms, the shift managers, and the clock punchers. The Customer Is Always Wrong is a tragicomic and all-too revealing collection of essays by writers who have done their time behind the counter and lived to tell their tales. Jim DeRogatis, author of Let It Blurt, for example, describes hanging o…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781933368900 |
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| ISBN-10: | 193336890X |
| Author: | Jeff Martin |
| Publisher: | Soft Skull Press |
| Imprint: | Soft Skull Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 184 |
| Release Date: | 1 October 2008 |
| Weight: | 162g |
| Dimensions: | 190mm x 128mm |
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About The Author
Jeff Martin
Jeff Martin edited the retail anthology The Customer Is Always Wrong and in 2009 released his fabricated memoir, My Dog Ate My Nobel Prize. He lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma.C. Max Magee created and edits the online magazine The Millions. He has appeared on NPR’s Weekend Edition and has written for Poets & Writers, The Morning News, and The Rumpus. He lives in Philadelphia.Contributors Include- Thomas Allen Kyle Beachy John Brandon Sonya Chung Elizabeth Crane Rudolph Delson Rivka Galchen David Gates and Jonathan Lethem Joshua Gaylord Lauren Groff Garth Risk Hallberg Owen King Benjamin Kunkel Reif Larsen Victor LaValle Emily St. John Mandel Clancy Martin Michael Paul Mason Joe Meno Ander Monson Victoria Patterson Tom Piazza Marco Roth Nancy Jo Sales Katherine Taylor Deb Olin Unferth
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