Labor Pains
by C.A. Huggins
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Pub Date Jun 26 2013 | Archive Date Jul 13 2014
Description
Attaining the American Dream one lie at a time.
Labor Pains is the hysterical debut from C.A. Huggins. It tells the story of Kevin Taylor, a woefully mediocre man, who finds himself at a crossroads in his mid-30's. Everyday his alarm clock wakes him up for the cold realization that he has to go to a job that he downright loathes. His cubicle is his own private jail cell for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week.
For the past 10 years, all of his efforts to get a promotion or get another job have been thwarted by his indifference towards hard work and overall incompetence. He feels destined to be stuck in the glut of the lower middle-class, living from check to check, never having the ability to do the things he wants to do, and going to a passionless job he hates in order to maintain his mediocre fate.
Kevin is then proposed a scenario where he would be guaranteed a promotion at his job by getting all of his rival co-workers fired from their respective positions, thus moving him up the pecking order and leaving him as the only candidate for the lone vacancy. This strategy of office terrorism in Labor Pains leads him into a string of hysterical occurrences as he quests to get what he thinks he rightfully deserves.
Will Kevin get the promotion? Can he attain the lifestyle he desires? Is it all worth it? And are all of these questions more important than Kevin and his work buddies deciding what they're having for lunch?
Advance Praise
"... Kevin is what is known in literature as an "unreliable narrator,"
in this case he is something like "the naif" who (quoting from
Wikipedia) is "a narrator whose perception is immature or limited through
his or her point of view" such as Huckleberry Finn or Holden Caulfield.
It's a nice technique and Huggins handles it superbly." - Dennis Littrell
on Amazon
" Labor Pains is vaguely reminiscent of Office Space and The Office in its
portrayal of the characters you meet at work, but has a completely different
type of protagonist in Kevin. The book is a fun, light read, and surely
entertaining for anyone who has spent some time in a cubicle." - E.
Griffin on Amazon
" This is a solidly entertaining, dark and twisty tale..." - Jason W.
Miller on Amazon
" We spend most of our time working with people we don't know, and over
the years you get to know them really well. And this book definitely captures
that feeling." - A. Hickling on Amazon
" The main character in this novel is a not very likable jerk, but his
exploits to get ahead in corporate culture are highly entertaining." - Jo
Ann Jordan on Amazon
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Available Editions
EDITION | Ebook |
ISBN | 9781494702984 |
PRICE | $5.99 (USD) |