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James P. Othmer
(Doubleday; $23.95)
Customer review
If you can't juggle your mobile, your laptop, your Blackberry, your IPOD and James P. Othmer's latest novel onto the train this summer, don't leave The Futurist behind. This is a very funny satire of contemporary America espied from the four corners of the world by Yates, a career futurist. His job is to jolly corporations, heads of state, sports marketers, bioengineers, pesticide makers and organic farmers alike into enjoining a better view of the future and their products or ideologies in it. In Johannesburg he's been hired to speak at Futureworld, a conference of the cognoscenti, when Yates has a sudden personal crisis: his girlfriend of six years leaves him for a history teacher. Instead of furthering his well paid career he proclaims himself a charter member of the "Coalition of the Clueless". He's booted from the world lecture circuit then rounds the globe, from South Africa to Greenland to Fiji to Pittsburgh searching for a more clued in version of J.P. Yates. Don't miss this one.
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