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Sign-Off
Once the most celebrated TV network, it is now the target of a hostile takeover, and a suddenly job security is as scarce as loyalty. As the takeover becomes a chilling reality, one ace producer decides to fight back. From the author of The Last Housewife.
- GenresFiction
368 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 1991
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Jon Katz
56 books467 followers Jon Katz is an author, photographer, and children's book writer. He lives on Bedlam Farm with his wife, the artist Maria Wulf, his four dogs, Rose, Izzy, Lenore and Frieda, two donkeys, Lulu and Fanny, and two barn cats. His next book, "Rose In A Storm" will be published by Random House on October 5.
He is working on a collection of short stories and a book on animal grieving.
He is working on a collection of short stories and a book on animal grieving.
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July 13, 2009
I have been a fan of the more recent writing of Jon Katz, and I was curious to read some of his earlier writing. Sign Off: A Novel of Men and Work was published in 1991. It chronicles the hostile takeover of United States Broadcasting (USB), a fictitious television network, as seen through the eyes of Peter Herbert, the executive producer of a nationally syndicated morning news program. UBS is taken over by David Nab, a self proclaimed "condo king" who has made a fortune in real estate and wishes to have the prestige that goes with owning a television network. Herbert watches in horror as, in a few short months, Nab lays waste to the network news, as well as the careers, and indeed the lives of his longtime associates, always wondering when the ax will fall on him.
This was a really compelling read. As a lowly Midwestern schoolteacher who has never aspired to the kind of lifestyle that Katz describes, I experienced a kind of guilty pleasure in reading about these people. It was a little like reading a Kitty Kelly tell-all.
Sign Off is a very well-written, illuminating, and entertaining book. After many years of writing memoir, Katz is once again returning to fiction. I am looking forward to it.
This was a really compelling read. As a lowly Midwestern schoolteacher who has never aspired to the kind of lifestyle that Katz describes, I experienced a kind of guilty pleasure in reading about these people. It was a little like reading a Kitty Kelly tell-all.
Sign Off is a very well-written, illuminating, and entertaining book. After many years of writing memoir, Katz is once again returning to fiction. I am looking forward to it.
March 10, 2009
SIGN-OFF (Novel-Peter Herbert-NYC-Cont) - NR
Katz, Jon - standalone
Product Description: One of the many oppressed employees at United States Broadcasting, Peter Herbert struggles to maintain a precarious balance between employment and personal integrity in the face of an ugly corporate takeover.
A look at the inner working sof a national news network. Unfortunately, that's not an interest of mine and I found it boring. Katz' mysteries are very good.
Katz, Jon - standalone
Product Description: One of the many oppressed employees at United States Broadcasting, Peter Herbert struggles to maintain a precarious balance between employment and personal integrity in the face of an ugly corporate takeover.
A look at the inner working sof a national news network. Unfortunately, that's not an interest of mine and I found it boring. Katz' mysteries are very good.
Displaying 1 - 2 of 2 reviews