The Knockoff: A Novel
Author:
Publisher:
Varies, see individual formats and editions
Pub. Date:
2015
Language:
English
Description
An outrageously stylish, wickedly funny novel of fashion in the digital age, The Knockoff is the story of Imogen Tate, editor in chief of Glossy magazine, who finds her twentysomething former assistant Eve Morton plotting to knock Imogen off her pedestal, take over her job, and reduce the magazine, famous for its lavish 768-page September issue, into an app.
When Imogen returns to work at Glossy after six months away, she can barely recognize her own magazine. Eve, fresh out of Harvard Business School, has fired “the gray hairs,” put the managing editor in a supply closet, stopped using the landlines, and hired a bevy of manicured and questionably attired underlings who text and tweet their way through meetings. Imogen, darling of the fashion world, may have Alexander Wang and Diane von Furstenberg on speed dial, but she can’t tell Facebook from Foursquare and once got her iPhone stuck in Japanese for two days. Under Eve’s reign, Glossy is rapidly becoming a digital sweatshop—hackathons rage all night, girls who sleep get fired, and “fun” means mandatory, company-wide coordinated dances to Beyoncé. Wildly out of her depth, Imogen faces a choice—pack up her Smythson notebooks and quit, or channel her inner geek and take on Eve to save both the magazine and her career. A glittering, uproarious, sharply drawn story filled with thinly veiled fashion personalities, The Knockoff is an insider’s look at the ever-changing world of fashion and a fabulous romp for our Internet-addicted age.
When Imogen returns to work at Glossy after six months away, she can barely recognize her own magazine. Eve, fresh out of Harvard Business School, has fired “the gray hairs,” put the managing editor in a supply closet, stopped using the landlines, and hired a bevy of manicured and questionably attired underlings who text and tweet their way through meetings. Imogen, darling of the fashion world, may have Alexander Wang and Diane von Furstenberg on speed dial, but she can’t tell Facebook from Foursquare and once got her iPhone stuck in Japanese for two days. Under Eve’s reign, Glossy is rapidly becoming a digital sweatshop—hackathons rage all night, girls who sleep get fired, and “fun” means mandatory, company-wide coordinated dances to Beyoncé. Wildly out of her depth, Imogen faces a choice—pack up her Smythson notebooks and quit, or channel her inner geek and take on Eve to save both the magazine and her career. A glittering, uproarious, sharply drawn story filled with thinly veiled fashion personalities, The Knockoff is an insider’s look at the ever-changing world of fashion and a fabulous romp for our Internet-addicted age.
More Details
Contributors:
ISBN:
9780385539593
9780553551020
9780553551020
Staff View
Grouping Information
Grouped Work ID | 4c912486-b409-23db-fef1-7f4047d9af51 |
---|---|
Grouping Title | knockoff |
Grouping Author | lucy sykes |
Grouping Category | book |
Grouping Language | English (eng) |
Last Grouping Update | 2023-12-07 04:07:40AM |
Last Indexed | 2023-12-07 04:43:57AM |
Solr Fields
accelerated_reader_point_value
0
accelerated_reader_reading_level
0
auth_author2
Piazza, Jo
author
Sykes, Lucy
author2-role
Piazza, Joauthor
cloudLibrary
cloudLibrary
author_display
Sykes, Lucy
available_at_aacpl
Online OverDrive Collection
collection_aacpl
CLOUD LIBRARY
detailed_location_aacpl
Online
Online OverDrive Collection
Online OverDrive Collection
display_description
An outrageously stylish, wickedly funny novel of fashion in the digital age, The Knockoff is the story of Imogen Tate, editor in chief of Glossy magazine, who finds her twentysomething former assistant Eve Morton plotting to knock Imogen off her pedestal, take over her job, and reduce the magazine, famous for its lavish 768-page September issue, into an app.
When Imogen returns to work at Glossy after six months away, she can barely recognize her own magazine. Eve, fresh out of Harvard Business School, has fired “the gray hairs,” put the managing editor in a supply closet, stopped using the landlines, and hired a bevy of manicured and questionably attired underlings who text and tweet their way through meetings. Imogen, darling of the fashion world, may have Alexander Wang and Diane von Furstenberg on speed dial, but she can’t tell Facebook from Foursquare and once got her iPhone stuck in Japanese for two days. Under Eve’s reign, Glossy is rapidly becoming a digital sweatshop—hackathons rage all night, girls who sleep get fired, and “fun” means mandatory, company-wide coordinated dances to Beyoncé. Wildly out of her depth, Imogen faces a choice—pack up her Smythson notebooks and quit, or channel her inner geek and take on Eve to save both the magazine and her career. A glittering, uproarious, sharply drawn story filled with thinly veiled fashion personalities, The Knockoff is an insider’s look at the ever-changing world of fashion and a fabulous romp for our Internet-addicted age.
When Imogen returns to work at Glossy after six months away, she can barely recognize her own magazine. Eve, fresh out of Harvard Business School, has fired “the gray hairs,” put the managing editor in a supply closet, stopped using the landlines, and hired a bevy of manicured and questionably attired underlings who text and tweet their way through meetings. Imogen, darling of the fashion world, may have Alexander Wang and Diane von Furstenberg on speed dial, but she can’t tell Facebook from Foursquare and once got her iPhone stuck in Japanese for two days. Under Eve’s reign, Glossy is rapidly becoming a digital sweatshop—hackathons rage all night, girls who sleep get fired, and “fun” means mandatory, company-wide coordinated dances to Beyoncé. Wildly out of her depth, Imogen faces a choice—pack up her Smythson notebooks and quit, or channel her inner geek and take on Eve to save both the magazine and her career. A glittering, uproarious, sharply drawn story filled with thinly veiled fashion personalities, The Knockoff is an insider’s look at the ever-changing world of fashion and a fabulous romp for our Internet-addicted age.
format_aacpl
eAudiobook
eBook
eBook
format_category_aacpl
Audio Books
eBook
eBook
id
4c912486-b409-23db-fef1-7f4047d9af51
isbn
9780385539593
9780553551020
9780553551020
itype_aacpl
Electronic Book
last_indexed
2023-12-07T09:43:57.969Z
lexile_score
-1
literary_form
Fiction
literary_form_full
Fiction
local_callnumber_aacpl
CLOUD LIBRARY
Online OverDrive
Online OverDrive
owning_library_aacpl
Anne Arundel County Public Library Online
owning_location_aacpl
Online OverDrive Collection
primary_isbn
9780385539593
publishDate
2015
publisher
Books on Tape
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
recordtype
grouped_work
subject_facet
Contemporary Women -- Fiction
Electronic books
Humorous -- Fiction
Romantic Comedy -- Romance
Electronic books
Humorous -- Fiction
Romantic Comedy -- Romance
title_display
The Knockoff A Novel
title_full
The Knockoff A Novel
The Knockoff A Novel [eBook] Sykes, Lucy,
The Knockoff A Novel [eBook] Sykes, Lucy,
title_short
The Knockoff
title_sub
A Novel
topic_facet
Contemporary Women
Fiction
Humor (Fiction)
Humorous
Literature
Romance
Romantic Comedy
Fiction
Humor (Fiction)
Humorous
Literature
Romance
Romantic Comedy
Solr Details Tables
item_details
Bib Id | Item Id | Shelf Loc | Call Num | Format | Format Category | Num Copies | Is Order Item | Is eContent | eContent Source | eContent URL | Detailed Status | Last Checkin | Location |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
overdrive:3ebd4d71-7ee9-44cf-95b9-a5349482fba7 | 1 | Online OverDrive Collection | Online OverDrive | eBook | eBook | 0 | false | true | OverDrive | Available Online | |||
overdrive:3ebd4d71-7ee9-44cf-95b9-a5349482fba7 | -1 | Online OverDrive Collection | Online OverDrive | eBook | eBook | 12 | false | true | OverDrive | Available Online | |||
overdrive:c53840c8-a338-48cb-8a95-d04717bf410c | -1 | Online OverDrive Collection | Online OverDrive | eAudiobook | Audio Books | 6 | false | true | OverDrive | Available Online | |||
overdrive:c53840c8-a338-48cb-8a95-d04717bf410c | 1 | Online OverDrive Collection | Online OverDrive | eAudiobook | Audio Books | 1 | false | true | OverDrive | Available Online | |||
external_econtent:ils:a1502099 | 1502099-1001 | Online | CLOUD LIBRARY | eBook | eBook | 1 | false | true | CLOUD LIBRARY | https://ebook.yourcloudlibrary.com/library/AACPL-document_id-fhmepg9 | Available Online | Z-ELIBRARY |
record_details
Bib Id | Format | Format Category | Edition | Language | Publisher | Publication Date | Physical Description | Abridged |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
overdrive:3ebd4d71-7ee9-44cf-95b9-a5349482fba7 | eBook | eBook | English | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | 2015 | |||
overdrive:c53840c8-a338-48cb-8a95-d04717bf410c | eAudiobook | Audio Books | English | Books on Tape | 2015 | |||
external_econtent:ils:a1502099 | eBook | eBook | English | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | 2015 | 352 pages |
scoping_details_aacpl
Bib Id | Item Id | Grouped Status | Status | Locally Owned | Available | Holdable | Bookable | In Library Use Only | Library Owned | Holdable PTypes | Bookable PTypes | Local Url |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
overdrive:3ebd4d71-7ee9-44cf-95b9-a5349482fba7 | 1 | Available Online | Available Online | false | true | true | false | false | true | |||
overdrive:3ebd4d71-7ee9-44cf-95b9-a5349482fba7 | -1 | Available Online | Available Online | false | true | true | false | false | false | |||
overdrive:c53840c8-a338-48cb-8a95-d04717bf410c | -1 | Available Online | Available Online | false | true | true | false | false | false | |||
overdrive:c53840c8-a338-48cb-8a95-d04717bf410c | 1 | Available Online | Available Online | false | true | true | false | false | true | |||
external_econtent:ils:a1502099 | 1502099-1001 | Available Online | Available Online | false | true | false | false | false | true |