Grind

’Grind’ is the story of Adam Johnson, a corporate everyman in his mid-thirties. ’Grind’ is what happens when ’Generation X’ drifts into day-jobs. With the ennui of Michel Houellebecq’s ’Whatever’ and the bleakness of Michael Bracewell’s ’Perfect Tense’, Stuart Bateman’s debut novel captures succinctly the emptiness of everyday existence in the early 21st century.