Truth in Advertising by John Kenney - ISBN: 9781472152107
Paperback
Lost ad man confronts family, love, and uncomfortable truths.

Truth in Advertising

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  • Paperback

    336 pages

  • Release Date

    13 September 2016

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Summary

Finbar Dolan is lost and lonely. Except he doesn’t know it. Despite escaping his blue-collar Boston upbringing to carve out a mildly successful career at a Madison Avenue ad agency, he’s a bit of a mess and closing in on forty. He’s recently called off his wedding. Now, a few days before Christmas, he’s forced to cancel a long-postponed vacation in order to write, produce, and edit a Superbowl commercial for his diaper account in record time.

Fortunately, it gets worse. He learns that…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781472152107
ISBN-10:1472152107
Author:John Kenney
Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
Imprint:Corsair
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:336
Release Date:13 September 2016
Weight:276g
Dimensions:202mm x 167mm x 23mm
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Critics Review

A quick-witted , wry sendup of the advertising industry and corporate culture…A clear-eyed, sympathetic story about complex family ties and the possibility of healing

A quick-witted, wry sendup of the advertising industry and corporate culture…A clear-eyed, sympathetic story about complex family ties and the possibility of healing - Washington Post

The protagonist, Finbar Dolan, is Don Draper stripped of all his glamour, success and pomade. What Fin, a midlevel copywriter, does have on Don is a sense of humor… . Framed around a surprisingly sweet romance, as well as Fin’s eventual confrontation with his painful family history, this debut offers a pleasing lightness-to-heart ratio. - New York Times

We’re sold on Kenney’s trenchant, quick-witted debut - Entertainment Weekly

A lively debut that has ‘movie deal’ written all over it. - People Magazine

In this Nick Hornby-esque fiction debut, midlife crisis and family tragedy force a 39-year-old ad man to reevaluate his priorities. - O Magazine, Ten Titles to Pick Up Now

About The Author

John Kenney

John Kenney has worked as a copywriter in New York City for seventeen years. He has also been a contributor to The New Yorker magazine since 1999. Some of his work appears in a collection of The New Yorker’s humor writing, Disquiet, Please! He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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