# Death of a Salaryman

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- Authors: [Fiona Campbell](https://www.bookquiver.com/fiona-campbell)
- Publisher: Vintage Digital
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-0701-943-7
- Published: 2011-02-15
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

Kenji Yamada has a critical wife, a hated mother-in-law and what he thinks is a job for life until his fortieth birthday teaches him otherwise. Initially too embarassed to tell his family that he has been fired, Kenji first befriends a travelling salesman with a passion for Elvis before taking up gambling, but his wife's outrage soon brings an end to this and sends him on a roller-coaster of misadventures. Via a bizarre chain of happenstance - including being struck by lightning while wielding a golf club - Kenji somehow finds himself responsible for a weirdly believable game show... Fiona Campbell's novel is a sparkling debut with graphic-novel sharpness, humour and poignancy.