Fat Bald Jeff

By Leslie Stella

Addie Prewitt is a copy editor for the National Association of Libraries. When her boss, the repulsive Coddles, heaps another new project on her department -- with no additional remuneration naturally -- she decides she's had enough. She spends her days battling with her roommate, Val Wayne Newton, about whether Black Sabbath or Neil Diamond will occupy the turntable and her nights beating her overeager suitor, Martin Lemming, away from the door of her boudoir. When she discovers a piece of vile pornography in Coddles's dry cleaning, she has the means to retaliate. Meanwhile, Fat Bald Jeff, the tech-support guy who has to cope with her mechanical self-sabotage, turns out to be even more disaffected than she, and they hatch the ultimate plan to give the pigs some of their own medicine. With a surreal wit and a keen eye that bring to mind Lily Tomlin set loose in Dilbert-world, Fat Bald Jeff is a sharp satire and a paean to the petty humiliations of workers everywhere.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802137725
• ISBN13: 9780802137722
• Release Date: February 2001
• Publisher: Grove Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Ignatius Reilly reincarnated as a woman!

I loved this book! I loved the self-involved Addie-she had the same clueless disregard for reality as Ignatius Reilly in "Confederacy of Dunces" and the same inabilty to see how others perceived her. I've known many "Fat Bald Jeffs" in my day, and it's nice to see them get their due. Fun, fast moving read!

Don't eat or drink while reading this book.

You'll probably choke laughing if you eat or drink while reading Fat Bald Jeff by Leslie Stella. I had already read The Easy Hour earlier this Summer which was hilarious. I could not find Fat Bald Jeff in my local book seller. My local library borrowed on interloan and I had two days to read it, which was not a problem because I could not put it down. Leslie Stella creates such a cast of crazy characters I could picture them all in all their weird get-ups. Get the book, you'll never stop laughing. Wish she would write another.

Funniest book I've read in years...

What a treat! Stella has woven a hilarious tale of sabotage in the workplace. I related to all of the main characters, Addie in particular, with her sarcastic attitude, her amusing nicknames for people, and her naive honesty. She is satisfying and entertaining comic relief to all of us who don't have the guts to stand up and 'flip the bird' to our bosses. I'll be living vicariously through Addie and Fat Bald Jeff for years to come.

Fun, Fun, Fun

Sarcasm offends some people. If it offends you then you might think of bypassing this volume and sticking to Oprahs list. But for others of us it is one of the ways we cope with what is going on in our world. Although this story centers on one girls life in the pits of going to work in a cubicle everyday you can easily unplug the cubicle and plug in whatever you do. Stella has written a gem here and we can all relate to it. She has used her humor to write not a knee slapper but a book that made me smile and shake my head during every page. Over and over again I found myself relating something in my life to something in each characters life.And as for Fat Bald Jeff? He represents everbody you ever made up a nickname for. Come on. Think about it. Haven't you ever had a nickname for someone and after a while you don't even remember his or her real name? Fat pants? Garbage? Furry? I have names for lots of people. I have to use this book for a book group this month. This same group read Plainsong last month. No two books could be further from each other on the subject scale. It will be interesting if people who like one like the other. Just out of curiosity if you read both let me know what you thought.Fun book to read, highly recommended,

Great fun!

I loved this book and finished it in one Sunday. (If you have kids - and I have 3 - you know just what a compliment this is!) The writing is wickedly funny. The characters are consistent and interesting. I hated to say good-bye to them when the story ended. It was great fun and I look forward to her next book.