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The Big Dream
by
Rebecca Rosenblum (Goodreads Author)
At Dream Inc., a lifestyle magazine publisher, people are struggling not only to do their jobs—or even to keep them—but to fall in love and stay that way, to have friends, to be good parents and good children, to eat lunch and answer the phone and be happy. Which can be pretty interesting . . . even on company time.
In The Big Dream, acclaimed short story writer Rebecca Ros...more
In The Big Dream, acclaimed short story writer Rebecca Ros...more
Paperback, 200 pages
Published
October 18th 2011
by Biblioasis
(first published September 2011)
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The Big Dream describes the lives of a group of employees who work for a magazine publishing conglomerate that seems to have found applied its dream brand to every possible publishing niche. I have met some of the scary characters Rosenblum describes (or at least real-life variations of them), although, so far, I have managed to avoid the fact-checker who takes her research assignments a little too seriously.
The stand-out story in the collection is "How to Keep Your Day Job." It demands that you...more
The stand-out story in the collection is "How to Keep Your Day Job." It demands that you...more
When I finished Rebecca Rosenblum's latest book of short stories, The Big Dream, I had one thought in my head: she's, to put it simply, a natural writer. I've been reading a sh*t tonne of short stories lately, mainly for work, but also for pleasure (and my work is pleasurably so figure that dichotomy out!), because I can digest them in the 10 minutes I have before crashing at bedtime, and they're really great for commuting. So, The Big Dream. It's different from Rosenblum's first collection, Onc...more
I am just so annoyed with myself for gobbling up these stories in the span of a couple of days and now I've eaten them all! But I just couldn't help myself! They are wonderful stories and the book an excellent follow to the author's previous story collection: Once.
I read Once earlier this year and waffled, when attempting to give it a fair review, between giving it a four star rating or a five, ultimately saying that I would give it a 9 out of ten. I loved those stories too and went back to read...more
I read Once earlier this year and waffled, when attempting to give it a fair review, between giving it a four star rating or a five, ultimately saying that I would give it a 9 out of ten. I loved those stories too and went back to read...more
Rebecca Rosenblum brings richly characterized personal drama to Canlit urban-based writing. The stories in The Big Dream took me by surprise. I read one after another and hopscotched around until I'd read the whole book. The soon-to-be-outsourcing lifestyle-magazine world she describes --details of sandwiches and life within (and outside) the cubicle -- held me. It was fascinating. For me, a long-time rural Canadian, it was like reading about life on another planet. I liked her people; she's suc...more
An at times funny, but always melancholy, view of office life at a magazine company, The Big Dream provides Rebecca Rosenblum with the opportunity to explore trends, personalities, management structures, and the feckless employees who work for Dream Inc.'s multiple, and similar-sounding, niche publications. Those are often the pluses of this collection, which is also non-chronological and yet tells something of the story of the company. The negatives are: the lack of anyone with a spine makes th...more
Several inter-woven stories from the Dream company, see how the employees interact with each other and some internalize. While mice eat through phone cables, layoffs are ordered, office equipment is taken, customer service calls are taken, Christmas party thrown; all the while the people of the stories have their big dream.
Rosenblum tops her extraordinary debut collection with this new book of short stories about employees of a publishing company that's fallen victime to these economic times.
Um, I wrote it, so I like it. This is not an unbiased rating.
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Rebecca Rosenblum’s fiction has been short-listed for the Journey Prize, the National Magazine Award, and the Danuta Gleed Award, and longlisted for the Relit Award. Her collection, Once, won the Metcalf-Rooke Award and was one of Quill and Quire’s 15 Books That Mattered in 2008. Rebecca received her masters of English and creative writing from the University of Toronto in 2007.
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