Satirical fiction and parodies
Amberjack Publishing Company The Insatiables
Book SynopsisWhen Halley Faust is handed the opportunity to move two steps up the corporate ladder, she laces up her shoes and starts climbing. But her covert battles with coworkers – equal parts funny and cringe-worthy – leave everyone wondering: how far do you have to go to achieve success?Trade Review"A young woman hustles to climb the corporate ladder in this darkly comedic, deeply insightful workplace drama . . . A humorous and thought-provoking tale about searching for the ever elusive brass ring." -- Kirkus Reviews
£12.56
Skyhorse Publishing Zombie-in-Chief: Eater of the Free World: A Novel
Book SynopsisBestselling author Scott Kenemore is back with a hilarious, over-the-top, and bloodthirsty send-up of the 2016 political season. In the tradition of Joe Klein's Primary Colors and Richard Condon's The Manchurian Candidate, Zombie-in-Chief: Eater of the Free World is a compelling and dramatic story with characters and events that may resemble familiar, real-life elections a little too closely! After all, who better to perform an autopsy of the American political system than an expert on the undead? When a tycoon and reality TV star improbably wins his party's nomination for the presidency, pundits and analysts are as baffled as they are certain that he will never win the general election. What can a man who already lives at the top of a golden skyscraper with a supermodel wife still want? Absent entirely from their prognostications is the possibility that it could be to gorge upon the brains of the living! That he dreams of building a border wall to better keep delicious humans in! That he seeks to make American great again. . . for zombies! Only an unlikely journalistic partnership between a reporter fresh from J-school and a blogger who is derided and dismissed as "fake news" seems to have any chance of derailing the tycoon's plans and exposing him as a member of the walking dead. Yet a terrifying question still remains. . . In a nation divided along political lines as never before, will such a revelation change anything? Or will a candidate revealed to be a proud "Zombie American" simply be another stepping stone on a historic (and not-so-above-board) journey to the presidency?Trade Review"Political satire with bite—and braaaains. A clever reimagining of the 2016 election that's going to Make America Love Zombies Again!"—Joanna Parypinski, author of Pandora “Enjoyably new and amusing at the same time. . . . It's bloody without going over-the-top. It's funny without pretension. It's political without getting political. Most of all, I could tell Kenemore had fun writing it.”—Steemit Books"Political satire with bite—and braaaains. A clever reimagining of the 2016 election that's going to Make America Love Zombies Again!"—Joanna Parypinski, author of Pandora “Enjoyably new and amusing at the same time. . . . It's bloody without going over-the-top. It's funny without pretension. It's political without getting political. Most of all, I could tell Kenemore had fun writing it.”—Steemit Books
£10.99
Source Point Press The Dark
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£6.99
Rare Bird Books Sibella & Sibella: A Novel
Book SynopsisEnlisted by megalomaniac publisher Myron Beam, Sibella—junior editor extraordinaire—recounts the trials and tribulations of the San Francisco-based literary darling Hard Rain Publishing all the way from its improbable rise through its seemingly inevitable freefall. The whip smart, wise-cracking, and surprisingly well-read Sibella navigates the mounting eccentricities of the house’s award-winning authors, slices up her oh-so-pretentious colleagues with her razor-sharp wit, and even manages to fish her publisher out of the pub long enough to keep the whole ship afloat, all the while battling her ex-boyfriend’s meteoric success and the feintless infinity of the blank page.But when her boss acquires the artless and arduous 900-page debut The Adventures of Calypso O’Kelly, their star author Figgy Fontana—possibly, maybe, kinda sorta—dies, and a team of con artists take aim at Myron Beam, it’s up to Sibella, her endlessly outmatched editor in chief, and a former female pornstar—no, really—to return Hard Rain and its hard-boozing, hapless publisher to their former glory.Part tell all, part mystery, and part coming-of-age novel, Sibella & Sibella is a biting look at the world of publishing from a reluctant witness who pulls no punches with anyone. Least of all herself.Trade ReviewPraise for Sibella and Sibella"In the rarified realm of A Confederacy of Dunces and David Markson’s Wittgenstein’s Mistress, Sibella & Sibella is surely the new picaresque—set in the mysterious world of independent publishing, the singular voice of a junior editor is roundly inhabited by Mr. Di Prisco who nimbly plays with form and language, and an industry he clearly both loves and scorns. A remarkable reading experience."—David Francis, author of Stray Dog Winter and Wedding Bush Road"Joseph Di Prisco’s fearlessness always impresses me, and his latest novel is no exception. Invoking satire and silliness, bad puns and good ones, hijinks, and hilarity, Sibella & Sibella takes on the absurdity of publishing, narrated through the lens of a young woman working as a junior editor at a San Francisco publishing house. Fortunately for readers, Di Prisco embraces the absurdity, and the result is this wonderfully crafted and bitingly funny critique that never fails to entertain.—Lori Ostlund, author of After the Parade and The Bigness of the World: Stories.Praise for The Pope of Brooklyn"A literary son traces his fugitive father in a pulpy yet cerebral memoir. . . This sprawling narrative is punctuated by Di Prisco's reflections on literature, faith, mortality, and his own tangled romances and outré experiences, ranging from cocaine addiction to mentoring adolescents...Deft, amusing, and tough.”―Kirkus ReviewsPraise for Subway to California"A beautiful, heartfelt, sometimes funny, occasionally harrowing story of a man making his way through the minefield of his own family history. Di Prisco has lived more lives than most of us, and managed to get it all down in this riveting book." —Jerry Stahl, author of Permanent Midnight and Bad Sex On Speed“Di Prisco delivers thoughtful contemplation of the human condition and plenty of self-examination that reveals how he made it to where he is, and why he survived when others didn’t. His sharp wit and hard-won wisdom make Subway to California a story that anyone who’s risen out of a hardscrabble life with the odds stacked against them will love and learn from."—Foreword Reviews“[Di Prisco] can break your heart recalling the most romantic memory of his life or make you laugh out loud when, for example, he defines the Catholic notion of Limbo: ‘not a horrible place, not a great place, sort of like parts of Staten Island.’”—Kirkus ReviewsPraise for The Alzhammer“Part Mafia thriller, part comic farce, part lament about the anguish of dementia and all hyperkinetic...Fast-paced and often charming."—Kirkus Reviews
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Catapult Fake Accounts
Book SynopsisA NATIONAL BESTSELLER * A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE * A WASHINGTON POST BEST BOOK OF THE YEARAn invigorating work, deadly precise in its skewering of people, places and things . . . Stylish, despairing and very funny, Fake Accounts . . . adroitly maps the dwindling gap between the individual and the world. —Katie Kitamura, The New York Times Book ReviewA woman in a tailspin discovers that her boyfriend is an anonymous online conspiracy theorist in this “absolutely brilliant take on the bizarre and despicable ways the internet has warped our perception of reality” (Elle, One of the Most Anticipated Books of the Year).On the eve of Donald Trump's inauguration, a young woman snoops through her boyfriend's phone and makes a startling discovery: he's an anonymous internet conspiracy theorist, and a popular one at that. Already fluent in internet fakery, irony, and outrage, she's not exactly shocked by the revelation. Actually, she's relieved--he was always a little distant--and she plots to end their floundering relationship while on a trip to the Women's March in DC. But this is only the first in a series of bizarre twists that expose a world whose truths are shaped by online lies.Suddenly left with no reason to stay in New York and increasingly alienated from her friends and colleagues, our unnamed narrator flees to Berlin, embarking on her own cycles of manipulation in the deceptive spaces of her daily life, from dating apps to expat meetups, open-plan offices to bureaucratic waiting rooms. She begins to think she can't trust anyone--shouldn't the feeling be mutual?Narrated with seductive confidence and subversive wit, Fake Accounts challenges the way current conversations about the self and community, delusions and gaslighting, and fiction and reality play out in the internet age.
£20.80
Leapfrog Press Jack and Barry
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BOA Editions, Limited Alien Stories
Book Synopsis“A vital voice in the short story, telling us new truths with deep humanity." –George Saunders Celebrated Nigerian-born writer E.C. Osondu delivers a short-story collection of nimble dexterity and startling originality in his BOA Short Fiction Prize-winning Alien Stories. These eighteen startling stories, each centered around an encounter with the unexpected, explore what it means to be an alien. With a nod to the dual meaning of alien as both foreigner and extraterrestrial, Osondu turns familiar science-fiction tropes and immigration narratives on their heads, blending one with the other to call forth a whirlwind of otherness. With wry observations about society and human nature, in shifting landscapes from Africa to America to outer space and back again, Alien Stories breaks down the concept of foreignness to reveal what unites us all as ‘aliens’ within a complex and interconnected universe.Trade ReviewPraise for E. C. Osondu“A vital voice in the short story, telling us new truths with deep humanity."–George Saunders, author of Lincoln in the Bardo“Osondu looks at the human condition in all its poignant absurdity; with observant wonder and subtle humor, he portrays our capacity for heartbreak, resilience, love, courage, sorrow, and most of all, our unique capacity for hope and hopelessness rolled together.”—Mary Gaitskill, author of This Is Pleasure“E.C. Osondu has written uncannily direct stories with nothing ‘posed’ about them. This is a collection of real power, surprise, and harsh beauty.”—Amy Hempel, author of Sing to ItPraise for Voice of America“There is room here for every style of storytelling, from folktale to crime tale to satire, to the very sombre and sad – and just when you think the writer has surely exhausted his bag of uproariously funny observations of street life in Lagos, or of immigrant experience in America, he unpacks more.”—The Guardian“His characters may dream about America, but E. C. Osondu’s bracing portrayal of life in Africa is the heart of this debut story collection.”—The New York Times“Meticulous and energetic, these stories brim with stubborn hope sprung free from life’s dark realities.”—Elle“Osondu’s excellent short stories, set in both Nigeria and the U.S., reveal the vast cultural chasm that persists between our countries . . . These richly shaded tales explore old ways and new, wealth and poverty, myth, and misapprehension.”—Booklist“Osondu juxtaposes the richness and desperation of life ‘on the ground’ in Africa with the actualities of the American dream . . . This book is essential.”—Library JournalPraise for This House Is Not For Sale“Osondu’s novel captures the depth and breadth of African society in a neighborhood in a nameless country where fable-like stories revolve around a marvelous ancestral house run by the narrator’s grandfather.”—Publishers Weekly, ★ Starred Review“A very modern, compassionate voice . . . Osondu is ceaseless in his willingness to examine the human condition in all its glories and frailties.”—Kirkus“Clearly drawing on the culture of traditional oral storytelling, a refrain of unidentified voices whispering and gossiping appears regularly throughout the book. This recalls a classical Greek chorus, punctuating what is otherwise the voice of a single narrator; that of one of Grandpa's grandchildren, an eagle-eyed child who watches the lives of those around him unfold. His voice is like the string of a necklace on which a host of beads – the individual chapters – are strung.”—The Independent
£12.34
Clover Press Tom the Dancing Bug Into the Trumpverse: The
Book SynopsisTom The Dancing Bug is celebrating its 30th anniversary, and it remains as timely and poignant as ever. Cartoonist and Tom The Dancing Bug creator Ruben Bolling has certainly had plenty of material to work with over the last four years, while winning a Herblock Prize, a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, and being named a Pulitzer Prize Finalist. Into The Trumpverse features more than 200 cartoons covering the political landscape during that time. With a foreword by the legendary Neil Gaiman.Ruben Bolling''s craft and commentary are as powerful and as pointed, as capable of making you laugh while breaking your heart, as they were when we were all so very young.from Neil Gaiman''s foreword
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Mad Cave Studios Hollywood Trash Vol. 1
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£13.49
Delphinium Books 31 Paradiso
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Delphinium Books 31 Paradiso
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Three Rooms Press Vulgarian Rhapsody
Book SynopsisA whirlwind tour of San Francisco’s fabled queer bohemia in the waning days of the 20th century, as the city’s budget bon vivants work to save their eccentric lifestyles in the face of tech gentrification by LAMBDA award finalist Alvin Orloff. Harris, San Francisco’s most annoying gay barfly, doesn’t mean to be bitchy, passive aggressive, or insulting. But he’s so bedazzled by his own critical brilliance he feels morally obliged to share his scathing opinions with the world at any and every opportunity. This irritates no one more than his roommate, Maxine, an avant-garde transsexual cabaret singer. When she overhears him badmouthing her on the phone she flies into a rage and expels him from their apartment. This crisis couldn’t come at a worse time. The year is 1999 and the “dot com” boom has rendered cheap housing nonexistent, and Harris, who works as a part-time telemarketer, is—as usual—low on funds. Will he be able to convince one of his eccentric, semi-dysfunctional friends with a rent-controlled apartment to let him move in? Vulgarian Rhapsody immerses readers in a fading bohemia of queer dive bars, drag clubs, and countercultural cafes. The book’s narrator (a longtime frenemy of Harris who’s every bit as snarky and annoying as he is) tells the story with sadistic relish and an ironist’s eye for the absurd. Anyone feeling sickly from too many uplifting stories of personal empowerment, precious coming-of-age tales, or sugarcoated romances will find the perfect antidote in this hilariously acidic comedy of manners. A must-read for fans of Brontez Purnell, Phillippe Besson, and Ryan O’Connell. Trade ReviewHigh Praise for Vulgarian Rhapsody Most Anticipated LGBTQIA+ Literature (Fiction) —LAMBDA Literary Review “Impressively original, exceptionally well written with a genuine flair for the kind of narrative driven storytelling that will keep the reader's rapt attention from start to finish, Vulgarian Rhapsody by Alvin Orloff is a fun read and one that immerses the reader in the eclectic bohemian and LGBTQ life styles that San Francisco is so well known for.” —Midwest Book Review “Simultaneously spoofs and celebrates the starry eyed dreamers, would-be artistes, and motivationless loafers who persist in believing that the city by the bay will always and forever be a judgement-free wonderland out of the hippie ’60s. Oopsy! . . . Packed with authentic details drawn from the author’s five kaleidoscopic decades in the city.” —Passport Magazine “An uproarious treat . . . a fun, frothy tour of a bygone time and place.” —Bay Area Reporter “Orloff’s delightful romp paints a picture that many audiences will find fun and enlightening; it will have other readers ruminating on their own scene circa Y2K.” —Library Journal“I’ve been a fan of Alvin Orloff’s work for 20 years. His latest novel (I've coined the term "New Wave Gothic") takes a slightly darker tone but does not spare the wit, sharp observance, and ultimately the generosity he gives to the most unlikely antiheroes. He never shies from camp but stays true to his ear for Classic English tone. I'm forever a disciple.” —Brontez Purnell, author, 100 Boyfriends “In his trademark fanciful style, Alvin Orloff takes us to 1990s San Francisco, when the city was still kind of fun, to meet a motley assortment of sassy talkers and soul scroungers as they haunt the city’s thrift shops, bars, and coffee houses meeting the same four or five people over and over again. Within this tiny, tiny world gigantic dramas unfold.” —Jennifer Blowdryer, musician and author, Kicked Out: The 86’d Project” “Even though its often hilarious and wickedly paced, Vulgarian Rhapsody isn't just a delicious romp. It’s a smart, gimlet-eyed portrayal of the drag queens, poets, artists, alcoholics and assorted legends in their own minds that have roamed up and down Market street for decades. A brilliant, scorched, vodka-soaked love letter to the San Francisco queer art scene.” —Mike Albo, author, Another Dimension of US, The Underminer, and Hornito“I laughed out loud! Vulgarian Rhapsody is an incisive portrait of a shiftless, hapless, uber-critical gay-bar-fly named Harris and the queer / trans / arty friends he torments, set against San Francisco's oppressive "Dot Com Boom" of the late 1990s. And the pansophical narrator is both saucy and wry. Brilliant!” —Phillip R. Ford, director, Vegas in Space; “honorary straight man” in legendary 1980s drag troupe, the Sluts A-Go-GoPast Praise for Alvin Orloff “No one is cooler than Alvin Orloff.” —Andrea Lawlor, author, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl (for Disasterama!) “Both beautiful and heartbreaking all in one.” —Michelle Tea, author, Against Memoir (for Disasterama!) “Thoroughly original.” —Publishers Weekly (for I Married an Earthling) “Alvin Orloff writes with a sharp mind and a gentle touch.” —K. M. Soehnlein, author, The World of Normal Boys (for Why Aren’t You Smiling?) “Quirky, insightful . . . glam as hell.” —The Bay Area Reporter (for Gutter Boys)
£11.39
Water Dragon Publishing We Have Always Lived in the Break Room
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£4.74
Atria Books Adequate Yearly Progress
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£14.44
Simon & Schuster Has Anyone Seen My Toes?
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£14.39
Penguin Adult Happy & You Know It
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£14.39
Random House USA Inc Fox 8: A Story
Book SynopsisFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo, a darkly comic short story about the unintended consequences unleashed by our quest to tame the natural world—featuring gorgeous black-and-white illustrations by Chelsea Cardinal. Fox 8 has always been known as the daydreamer in his pack, the one his fellow foxes regard with a knowing snort and a roll of the eyes. That is, until he develops a unique skill: He teaches himself to speak “Yuman” by hiding in the bushes outside a house and listening to children’s bedtime stories. The power of language fuels his abundant curiosity about people—even after “danjer” arrives in the form of a new shopping mall that cuts off his food supply, sending Fox 8 on a harrowing quest to help save his pack. Told with his distinctive blend of humor and pathos, Fox 8 showcases the extraordinary imaginative talents of George Saunders, whom The New York Times called “the writer for our time.”
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Random House USA Inc dem
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Random House USA Inc Dunfords Travels Everywheres
Book SynopsisWINNER OF THE AMERICAN BOOK AWARD • William Melvin Kelley''s final work, a Joycean, Rabelaisian romp in which he brings back some of his most memorable characters in a novel of three intertwining stories. [A] lost giant of American Literature. —The New Yorker Ride on out with Rab and Turt, two o''New Afriqueque''s toughfast, ruefast Texnosass Arangers, as they battle Chief Pugmichillo and ricecure Mr. Charcarl Walker-Rider. Cut in on Carlyle Bedlowe, wrecker of marriage, saver of souls.Or just along with Chig Dunford, product of Harlem and private schools, on the circular voyage of self-discovery that takes him from Europe''s Café of One Hand to Harlem''s Jack O''Gee''s Golden Grouse Bar & Restaurant.Beginning on an August Sunday in one of Europe''s strangest cities, Dunfords Travels Everywheres but always returns back to the same point—the Begending—where Mr. Charcarl''s dream becomes Chig Dunford''s reality (the Ivy League Negro in the world outside the Ivory Tower).“Among the most innovative and exciting novelists in the history of international literature, the opportunity to honor William Melvin Kelley with the American Book Award is a great privilege. Before Columbus Foundation is elated to welcome his work back into print, thanks to Anchor Books. It is a unique thrill to see Dunfords Travels Everywheres now illustrated in it’s new edition by Aiki Kelley, whom we also honor with this year’s Award. The majesty of William Melvin Kelley’s vital contribution to international letters remains urgent and evermore medicinal in its cosmic scope and unifying embrace. The total arc and panorama of human experience, embodied in the mythologies we share from antiquity to the present are fully illuminated in William Melvin Kelley’s artistry. An absolute virtuoso of the language, with Dunfords Travels Everywheres, William Melvin Kelley ignites the spiritual imagination, reviving and resuscitating images of our journey with wit and grace. His masterwork is truly a wonder to behold. Vivid, charismatic, mercurial, musical, Dunfords Travels Everywheres stands as one of the great contributions to the art of the novel. Laughing to keep from crying, living life not dying, this new illustrated edition sings a joyous, uplifitng song.” —Justin Desmangles, citation from the American Book Award
£13.60
Books on Demand Voltaire: Candide ou l'optimisme: Le texte en
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£14.32
Books on Demand Une épopée monumentale
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£11.18
Peter Lang AG Parody, Scriblerian Wit and the Rise of the
Book SynopsisParody was a crucial technique for the satirists and novelists associated with the Scriblerus Club. The great eighteenth-century wits (Alexander Pope, John Gay, Henry Fielding, Laurence Sterne) often explored the limits of the ugly, the droll, the grotesque and the insane by mocking, distorting and deconstructing multiple discourses, genres, modes and methods of representation. This book traces the continuity and difference in parodic textuality from Pope to Sterne. It focuses on polyphony, intertextuality and deconstruction in parodic genres and examines the uses of parody in such texts as «The Beggar’s Opera», «The Dunciad», «Joseph Andrews» and «Tristram Shandy». The book demonstrates how parody helped the modern novel to emerge as a critical and artistically self-conscious form. Table of ContentsParody – Scriblerian Wit – The Rise of the Novel – English poetry and prose of the eighteenth century – Polyphony – Intertextuality and deconstruction in parodic genres – The mock-epic – Burlesque – Alexander Pope’s satires – John Gay’s mock-pastoral poems – The novels by Henry Fielding – The novels by Laurence Sterne
£55.80
Books on Demand Das Lob der Narrheit. Farbiges Faksimile der
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Twentysix Der Mann, der Sylt in die Luft sprengte
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£18.52
Twentysix Der Tod ist kein Arschloch
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£16.42
Books on Demand Pepo die Sch(m)eißfliege: Ich bin zu alt für
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£11.18
Books on Demand Mehr Bella!: Und noch andere Geschichten
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£10.42
Books on Demand Die große Chaos AG: Master of Deaster
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£8.07
Books on Demand Dapp 4.0: Emil ohne einen Funken Verstand
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£13.42
Books on Demand Stolpern
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£10.71
Books on Demand Paradies: Er will doch nur spielen
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£14.62
Malpaso Editorial La Sangre del Cordero
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£18.36
Ediciones Abraxas Viaje Al Mundo Subterráneo
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£10.34
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Trampa 22 / Catch 22
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£29.24
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Los viajes de Gulliver / Gulliver's Travels
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£16.97
Nordica Libros El Diario de un Don Nadie
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£18.48
Nordica Libros Una Humilde Propuesta/A Modest Proposal
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£12.78
Double 9 Booksllp The Little Demon
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£15.74
Double 9 Booksllp Don Quixote
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£40.49
Double 9 Books The Battle Of The Books And Other Short Pieces
Book SynopsisJonathon Swift initially released The Battle of the Books, and Other Short Pieces as a compilation of satirical essays and pamphlets. The title article, The War of the Books, is a satirical allegory in which numerous literary creations are portrayed as soldiers fighting in a conflict between ancient and contemporary books. Other pieces in the collection include The Mechanical Operation of the Spirit, a satirical essay on the state of modern philosophical inquiry, A Tale of a Tub, a satirical attack on religious hypocrisy, and A Modest Proposal, a famous satirical essay suggesting that Irish poverty could be solved by eating their children. Swift uses his trademark wit and cutting sarcasm to criticize various societal issues throughout the anthology, including politics, religion, literature, and culture. His work is characterized by a caustic and sarcastic tone that often criticizes the hypocrisy and arrogance of the governing elites. Despite being more than three centuries old, the Battle of the Books, and Other Short Pieces is still regarded as a classic work of satire and English literature. Its impact may be observed in the writing of following authors like Kurt Vonnegut, George Orwell, and Oscar Wilde.
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The American University in Cairo Press The Unexpected Love Objects of Dunya Noor
Book SynopsisAspiring photographer Dunya Noor discovers early on that her curious spirit, rebellious nature, and very curly hair are a recipe for disaster in 1980s Syria. And at the tender age of thirteen, she is exiled to live with her grandparents in England. Many years later in London, she meets Hilal, the son of a humble tailor from Aleppo and no match for Dunya, daughter of the great heart surgeon Joseph Noor. But, dreamy, restless Dunya falls in love with Hilal and they decide to return to Syria together, embarking on a journey that will change them both forever. Rana Haddad’s vivid and satirical debut novel captures the essence of life under the Assad dictatorship, in all its rigid absurdity. With humor and an unexpected playfulness, this is a story of love and light against the forces of conservativism and oppression.Trade Review“An amazing book . . . peppered with satire and comic moments . . . [you] understand that there is so much more to this extraordinary country [Syria] than just war.”—Sanam Shantyaei, Middle East Matters, France24"Quirky, very readable...I recommend The Unexpected Love Objects of Dunya Noor for its lightness of tone and the weight of its concerns. And because it’s part set in Lattakia – not many novels wear that particular honor."—Robin Yassin-Kassab, Qunfuz“Very enjoyable reading . . . it is to be hoped that we will see more from Rana Haddad.” —The Modern Novel"I loved this book! Magical writing and such a beautiful story. Thank you for this novel whose characters with their glorious curly hair will stay with me! Read this."—Mona Eltahawy“A vivid debut . . . infused not only with comedy but with a gentle lyricism. This is a story about love in its many shades, its pleasures and its pain, and how it feels to have the political intrude upon the intimately personal.”—i News"Telling satire for anyone who knows Syria.”—Gareth Smyth, The Arab Weekly"While Haddad's novel depicts the context of Syria's conflict, aspects of it could be happening anywhere. For this is not so much a novel about Syria, but a novel about the strangeness and difference between what is said and unsaid, what is understood and what is not.” —Usman Butt, Al-Araby Al-Jadeed“[An] exceptional debut novel. Satirical and witty . . . there is a skillful lightness to Haddad’s writing.” —Arab News
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Verbivoraciouspress The Sycamore Tree
£12.84
Verbivoraciouspress The Middlemen: A Satire
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Verbivoraciouspress Knut
£12.84
Hysterical Dementia From G to Pg to R to X
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Thorndike Press Large Print Liberation Day: Stories
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£34.18
Thorndike Press Large Print The Survivalists
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£34.20
Sycamore Farm Publishing Group #ScaryWhiteFemales
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£18.69
