Title: Office Politics, Writ Large
Review: Everyone who has worked in the environment of a large corporation is familiar with the constant niggling tensions, the non-stop jockeying for favor among the cubicle veal. As a former Hewlett-Packard worker Max Barry is well-versed on the concept."Company" takes the idea of office politics to the next level -- what if a corporation were NOTHING BUT office politics? What if the corporation's whole reason for being was to test out various theories of management -- what if THERE WERE, IN FACT, NO CUSTOMERS?Barry's three novels have all sailed similar waters, but they have gotten more realistic and more believable as he has matured as a writer. With "Company" he has written not only a fully developed novel, but a fully believable cast of characters and very realistic portrayal of life inside a shareholder-value boilerhouse.This story would make a very good summer movie, if the screenplay was adapted by Charlie Kaufman and directed by Spike Jonze.
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