Rental Person Who Does Nothing
a memoir
$29.76
- Paperback
160 pages
- Release Date
27 June 2024
Summary
The Rental Person Who Does Nothing: Finding Connection in a Disconnected World
Need a rental person who does nothing?
Shoji Morimoto provides a fascinating service to the lonely and socially anxious. After an old boss told him that he contributed nothing and that it made no difference whether he showed up to work or not, he wondered if a person who ‘does nothing’ could still have a place in the world. With a tweet, his Rental Person service was born.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781035012824 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1035012820 |
| Author: | Shoji Morimoto, Don Knotting |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan |
| Imprint: | Picador |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Release Date: | 27 June 2024 |
| Weight: | 118g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm x 10mm |
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Critics Review
Distinctively Japanese musings on meaning and connection * Observer *A beguiling kind of picaresque * The Times *Lays bare the bathos and banality of contemporary life … Morimoto, though still elusive, emerges as a modern Bartleby, an inadvertent dissident, someone who has come to see his practice as being “about enjoying the absurdity of swimming against the tide of efficiency” * Guardian *An eccentric, charming book, showing how humans can connect in the strangest of circumstances * Kirkus *
About The Author
Shoji Morimoto
Shoji Morimoto was born in 1983. He began working as a rental person who does nothing in 2018 and has since been hired more than 4,000 times. He’s been profiled by many media outlets worldwide and has written several books including Rental Person Who Does Nothing, which inspired a Japanese TV series. Morimoto lives in Japan with his wife and son.
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