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Corporate hatchetman Hubbard is on his way to an industry convention to carry out a termination - a fancy way of saying he's about to toss a man and his family out in the street. But the convention is a modern Sodom of cheating husbands and ambitious wives, ready to put out as much as necessary to ensure their husbands' jobs - and a plan is afoot to smear Hubbard ...
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“<strong>Drawing a picture of sixties businesses world</strong>
The story is almost a convenient scaffold used to draw a picture of business life and conventions of the sixties. The storyteller kills off a couple of characters, perhaps because that is the neatest way to tie up loose ends.
The image painted of women and their role in the world is quite foreign by contemporary standards. I suppose there will anyways be intergender tensions, but acceptable rules and treatment has clearly changed a lot. Guessing how they will be managed twenty years from now is clearly a guess. The continuation of they historical tend of equal rights seems most likely. People will always try to be manipulative and neither gender has a monopoly on that.
Part of what it means to be human is the continuous exploration of gender roles and ongoing effort to understand the motivation of others.”
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About John D. MacDonald
John D. MacDonald was born in Pennsylvania and married Dorothy Prentiss in 1937, graduating from Syracuse University the following year and receiving an MBA from Harvard in 1939. It was Dorothy who was responsible for the publication of his first work, when she submitted a short story that he had sent home while on military service. It was initially rejected by Esquire but went on to be published by Story magazine - and so began MacDonald's writing career. One of the best-loved and most successful of all the masters of hard-boiled crime and suspense, John D. Macdonald was producing brilliant fiction long after many of his contemporaries had been forgotten, and is still highly regarded today. THE EXECUTIONERS, possibly the best known of his non-series novels, was filmed as Cape Fear in 1962 and 1991, but many of the crime thrillers he produced between 1953 and 1964 are considered masterpieces, and he drew praise from such literary greats as Kurt Vonnegut and Stephen King, who declared him to be 'the great entertainer of our age, and a mesmerizing storyteller'. His novels are often set in his adopted home of Florida, including those featuring his famous series character Travis McGee, which appeared between 1964 and 1985. He served as president of the Mystery Writers of America and in 1972 was elected a Grand Master, an honour granted only to the greatest crime writers of their generation, including Ross MacDonald, John Le Carré and P. D. James. He won many awards throughout his long career, and was the only mystery writer ever to win the National Book Award, for THE GREEN RIPPER.
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