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Basket of Deplorables - Almost-true stories
Verlag | Quercus |
Auflage | 2017 |
Seiten | 224 |
Format | 12,9 x 19,7 x 1,3 cm |
B-Format | |
Gewicht | 162 g |
Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
ISBN-10 | 1786488744 |
EAN | 9781786488749 |
Bestell-Nr | 78648874UA |
Short satirical linked stories on the reaction to Trump, the hypocrisies of liberalism and living in a post-truth America
Klappentext:
§SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDGE HILL PRIZE
Almost-true stories for a post-truth world
Wrong! Not Nice! Sad!
A Manhattan party on election night. Liberal media types gather with big grins and high-end canapés to watch the Trump-Clinton results come in, expecting a smooth victory for Hillary. As the outcome shifts and they descend into panic, the host stands abruptly before her guests, confessing a shocking crime of years before.
What follows is a series of witty, cutting, addictive tales of Trump times, portraying Democrats and Republicans in a divided America, from powerful to powerless, angry to thwarted, from a Starbucks barista who dreams of making it on the stage, to a couple whose online date goes bitterly awry, to a charmingly wicked U.S. businessman living undercover in rural Italy. Basket of Deplorables is a timely take on the craziness of today: almost-true fiction for a post-truth world.
Rezension:
Inventive and amusing . . . Irresistible, like a blend of Roald Dahl's short fiction, Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror series and David Foster Wallace's Brief Interviews with Hideous Men . . . Once today's news has become tomorrow's online archive, this will be the one still worth reading Claire Lowdon Times Literary Supplement