'Barry has packed these pages with hilarious, if acid-etched, vingettes of corporate characters you may find all too familiar.'
Anne Fisher, Business Life
'Australian Max Barry doesn't so much publish biting satires as release them with fuses lit in much the way certain-aged boys gleefully disrupt school plumbing with firecrackers.'
Henry Goldblatt, Entertainment Weekly
'With the release of Company ... Australian novelist Max Barry establishes himself as fiction's most insightful and devilish satirist of corporate culture.'
Michael Maiello, Forbes
'Barry has written a wonderful yarn made up of all the characteristics to be found in many a company office — love, loyalty, management and corporate immorality.
Peter Barrett, Guyra Argus
'Company has a go at all the easy targets, but it does it with style and more than a hint of love from Barry for his witless cast.'
Craig Goddard, Herald Sun
'A raucous black comedy ... enters some sublimely Kafkaesque territory.'
Kirkus Reviews, starred review
'Company is a biting, incisive, and delightful satire on corporate life.'
Yvonne Lawrence, Melbourne Observer
Company is 'a Dilbert-meets-Nick Hornby smartass manifesto against corporations'
Omar L. Gallaga, MSNBC Spring Book Guide
'Company is a must-read and should be a required text in every business management course in the country, if not the world.'
Steve Woodman, Newcastle Herald
'If you haven't read him yet, now is the time. Company will send you in search of his back catalogue.'
Louise Swinn, Overland
'Fans of The Office and Dilbert - and anyone else who considers corporate life insane - will recognize the buttoned-down absurdities that Barry spoofs in this biting, hilarious novel.'
People
'It's a hilarious, twisted look at one salesman's quest for truth and dignity at a mysterious business.'
Ellison G. Weist, Portland Life
'The story remains compelling, not only because of its surprises, but because of Barry's skilled prose.'
Will Gardner, Portland Mercury
'With broad strokes, Barry once again satirizes corporate America in his third caustic novel'
Publishers Weekly
'A wicked satire on management practice and corporate culture.'
Qantas The Australian Way
'The beauty of Company is that it really is gasp-inducingly recognisable.'
Marieke Hardy, The Age
'Company would do Evelyn Waugh proud.'
The Economist
‘Hilarious ... Barry underscores his credentials as both satirist and saboteur ... Company is Mr. Barry's breakout book.'
The New York Times
'Mr. Barry underscores his credentials as both satirist and saboteur.'
Janet Maslin, The New York Times
‘Makes topics like outsourcing, mission statements and H.R. come alive, breathe fire and vomit all over your in-basket ... smart and fast paced.’
Douglas Coupland, The New York Times Book Review
'Fiefdoms are divided among cubicles, sales staff wreak vengeance upon coworkers for taking extra donuts, a new employee's hiring is hidden in the office supply budget. In other words, it's only slightly more ridiculous than any office you've ever worked in.'
Sonny Bunch, The Standard Reader
'This outrageous satire of big business is biting, edgy and down right wicked.'
Tuscon Citizen
'An extremely funny, superbly observed take on organizational life.’
Stanley Bing, Washington Post
'This is a romp, a funny, well-written, astute romp. Barry is one of the most talented young Australian novelists you've never heard of. Read him.'
Michael Williams, Weekend Australian
'Barry's voice is fresh and full of deadpan wit as he scrutinizes everyday ordinary events and proves them to be bizarre and, more surprisingly, real.'
Stephanie Szymanski, www.bookpage.com
Company is 'a hilarious send-up that will tickle something inside anyone who has dwelt within the system's beige partitions.'
Mark Flanagan, Your Guide to Literature
'Max Barry is one of the sharpest, hippest and funniest authors writing in Australia today.'
Matthew Reilly
‘So funny that it's serious. No cubicle should be without a copy.’
Gideon Haigh
