After taking a job in the United States, the narrator is confronted externally by the absurdity of corporate America, culture shock, and the conflict of moving from the lower to upper-middle class. After the narrator starts attending AA meetings, he sobers up and looks back on his past relationships with a measure of remorse. Purporting to be an autobiography, Diary of an Oxygen Thief begins with the narrator, an Irish advertising executive living in London, describing the pleasure he used to receive from emotionally abusing women.
Diary of an Oxygen Thief was called a 'surprise dark-horse Williamsburg best seller' by New York Magazine, referring to the independent art, literature, and music scene in Brooklyn, New York.
Diary of an Oxygen Thief is a 2006 Dutch novel, written by Anonymous and published in Amsterdam by NLVI.
