Slab Rat, Ted Heller
Slab Rat, Ted Heller
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Slab Rat

Author: Ted Heller

Narrator: Johnny Heller

Unabridged: 11 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 11/07/2023

Categories: Fiction


Synopsis

Zachary Arlen Post is an up-and-coming editor at It magazine, one of the glossiest jewels in the crown of Versailles Publishing. The son of socialite parents, Zack was educated at the right schools, is an excellent golfer. …

Or maybe not.

He is really Allen Zachary Post from Long Island, a guy with a background too downmarket for someone who wants to move up the ladder at It. Despite his pose, Zack's ascent up the masthead has stalled, and his love life is complicated by two women: a cool English beauty with a hyphenated name and an eager, sweetnatured intern Zack could bring home to Mom. With the arrival of Mark Larkin, a determined, Harvard-educated editor who knows all the right moves, Zack's prospects for promotion grow dimmer. Mark seems to be the source of all of Zack's woes. Zack wishes Mark were dead.

Ted Heller has written a biting, outrageous story of how the rats that battle for dominance amid New York's skyscrapers—or "slabs"—survive and triumph, and the price they must pay to win.

Includes an exclusive interview with the author

Reviews

Goodreads review by Manik on January 01, 2016

You must think magazines are fun. Hell, you’re reading one right now. But a new salvo from the inside blares that it ain’t no picnic. Ted Heller’s thinly veiled Slab Rat paints a portrait of the magazine world with venom: Protagonist Zack Post — an underling at a fairly vain glossy called It — must......more

Goodreads review by Rob on November 16, 2012

Slab Rat comes dripping with praise from various highbrow publications, including one cover quote comparing it favourably to Heller's father's most famous work, Catch 22. This is unfair on him (who can compete with a cultural landmark like that?) and even more unfair on the reader, as expectations c......more

Goodreads review by Neha on June 30, 2017

God! Awful! I cannot even begin to describe what I hated in this book because there were too many things. I fully understand this is satire and I fully understand how it's worked in books but there is a certain storyline that goes along and unfortunately I couldn't find it. Not a strong one anyway. T......more

Goodreads review by Terri on April 27, 2009

This wasn't a bad book...and was entertaining....but, I have a hard time with books where none of the characters are likeable. Especially the main character who wants his boss dead...but, manipulates his best friend into doing it for him. I don't even understand why he wants the life he's desperate......more

Goodreads review by Mark on August 29, 2007

Fun, but not substantial. A cotton candy book on dysfunctional office life.......more