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Joey Comeau’s startling new work of fiction is told through job application cover letters. Looking for work is an exercise in selling yourself. You write cover letter after cover letter, listing the parts of you that you respect the least, listing the selling points that make you valuable in a buyer’s market. You leave out the little details that you tell yourself in the morning to make things okay. You don't mention the mistakes you’ve made, or the way your feet felt like lead at your aunt's funeral. You write cover letter after cover letter, listing the same store-bought traits in the same wording, day after day, hoping to find another job. And then maybe one day you just snap a little. You sit down to write a cover letter, and something entirely new comes out.

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There have been spoof letter-writing books in the past, like The Lazlo Letters by Don Novello (a.k.a. Father Guido Sarducci) and several that followed. While [this] protagonist in is just as unhinged as his predecessors, he's significantly less giddy. A real story unfolds in these pages, about a departed brother and the sibling left behind. It's sad and fragmented and, in places, funny. This slender epistolary novel is charming. -- Los Angeles Times Jacket Copy online Unlike anything you've ever read. Each of Joey Comeau's letters comments, sometimes subtley, sometimes not, on the emptiness of the system . . . while it simultaneously reveals the humor, beauty, and pain that is all else in life. --About.com A collection of wry, clever and demoniacal job-application letters, teeming with knife-edged malice and stomach-tearing hilarity . . . Successfully deludes the fear of the faceless corporate entity by empowering the faceless applicant. -- Globe and Mail A sometimes-hilarious, sometimes-crushingly sad romp through a man's swelling nihilism and disenchantment. --MonstersAndCritics.com Joey Comeau's collection of real cover letters, Overqualified, is pretty much sui generis. Not to mention sweetly written, bitter and bitterly funny . . . One of the season's most remarkable books. --Macleans.ca Overqualified 's cover letters are like a slap in the face, but the slap is hilarious, and you can't stop laughing, and as soon as it's over you want to tell all your friends about the slap. You know the kind? --Ryan North, Dinosaur Comics Joey Comeau has made the unreadable not just readable, but beguiling in its digressions and personal revelations. --Eye Magazine Joey Comeau's Overqualified is Judy Blume's Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret as chewed up and spit out by J. G. Ballard. . . . A book whose melancholy is leavened by a surprising hilarity. --Paul Di Filippo, author, The Steampunk Triology and Cosmocopia

Joey Comeau's Overqualified is Judy Blume's Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret as chewed up and spit out by J. G. Ballard. . . . A book whose melancholy is leavened by a surprising hilarity. --Paul Di Filippo, author, The Steampunk Triology and Cosmocopia

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Joey Comeau is the author of Lockpick Pornography and Too Late to Say I'm Sorry, as well as the popular web comic A Softer World. He lives in Toronto, Ontario.

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