Word: dystopian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This is a novel written in blood and Inc. The author has been a speechwriter for Lee Iacocca, Gerald Ford and the chairman of the board of American Motors, and he has manifestly spent many hours with Kafka's In the Penal Colony and Orwell's dystopian visions. Walker's central figure, a nameless public relations man for a major corporation, is getting stale. The company packs him off for behavioral conditioning. Walker is not much on acronyms: the victim is made to undergo PAR--Positive Attitudinal Reinforcement--and SAD--Supervisory Aptitude Development. But the forced seminars ring with comic...