Kirkus Reviews (review date 1 August 1993)
SOURCE: A review of Up the Agency: The Funny Business of Advertising, in Kirkus Reviews, Vol. LXI, No. 15, August 1, 1993, p. 984.
[In the following excerpt, the critic describes Up the Agency as an amusing look at the advertising business.]
Generalities about advertising by the tireless Mayle [appear in Up the Agency: The Funny Business of Advertising]….
Rather than offer a riotous nailing-down of idiocies in advertising, Mayle depends more upon dry wit rather than...
Source: Contemporary Literary Criticism, ©1996 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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