Amazon.com Review
In this existential work, a nameless protagonist floats through his banal life of inactivity in a mindless job. The 14 vignettes in Through the Habitrails are not so much linear chapters as they are atmospheric stepping stones to another world. Although these stories seem to take place out of order, they build toward an emotionally draining, yet strangely optimistic and fatalistic conclusion. Most of the characters are drawn without mouths and with near-expressionless eyes in stark, simplistic black and white; the effect is chilling.
Review
As bleak and, yeah, Kafkaesque as this all is, there is something uplifting about Habitrails. -- Baltimore City Pages, Nov. 27, 1996
Your cubicle will never look the same after you take this surreal guided tour through the world of corporate employment. Jeff Nicholson's fourteen tightly scripted short stories will re-introduce you to the all-too-familiar facets of life on the job: the co-workers, office romances, banal tasks and damaging addictions. As the larger back story builds, Nicholson's nameless protagonist sees his private dreams threatened with extinction, punctuated by periodic attempts at escape from the company. Ultimately, this battle of responsibility over desire culminates in a harrowing downward spiral. -- Book Description
Your cubicle will never look the same after you take this surreal guided tour through the world of corporate employment. Jeff Nicholson's fourteen tightly scripted short stories will re-introduce you to the all-too-familiar facets of life on the job: the co-workers, office romances, banal tasks and damaging addictions. As the larger back story builds, Nicholson's nameless protagonist sees his private dreams threatened with extinction, punctuated by periodic attempts at escape from the company. Ultimately, this battle of responsibility over desire culminates in a harrowing downward spiral. -- Book Description
