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Don't Get Too Comfortable

By David Rakoff

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Don't Get Too Comfortable

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A bitingly funny grand tour of our culture of excess from an award-winning humorist. Whether David Rakoff is contrasting the elegance of one of the last flights of the supersonic Concorde with the good-times-and-chicken-wings populism of Hooters Air; working as a cabana boy at a South Beach hotel; or traveling to a private island off the coast of Belize to watch a soft-core video shoot-where he is provided with his very own personal manservant-rarely have greed, vanity, selfishness, and vapidity been so mercilessly skewered. Somewhere along the line, our healthy self-regard has exploded into obliterating narcissism; our manic getting and spending have now become celebrated as moral virtues. Simultaneously a Wildean satire and a plea for a little human decency, Don't Get Too Comfortable shows that far from being bobos in paradise, we're in a special circle of gilded-age hell.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
242
Release Date:
2006-09-12
Publication Date:
2006-09-12
Publisher:
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0767916034
ISBN13:
9780767916035
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
275 g
Height:
132 cm
Width:
203 cm
Thickness:
14 cm

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