Don't Get Too Comfortable

Name: Don't Get Too Comfortable
Brand: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
SKU: 9780767916035-V
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By David Rakoff

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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
Languages:: Original: English
Number of Pages:: 242
Publisher:: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication Date:: 2006-09-12
ISBN / EAN:: 9780767916035
Weight:: 275 g
Dimensions:: 13/20/1 cm
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]

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