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Don't Get Too Comfortable Book
David Rakoffâ??s bestselling collection of autobiographical essays, Fraud, established him as one of todayâ??s funniest and most insightful writers. Now, in Donâ??t Get Too Comfortable, Rakoff moves from the personal to the public, journeying into the land of unchecked plenty that is contemporary America. Rarely have greed, vanity, selfishness, and vapidity been so mercilessly and wittily 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. Whether 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 shootâ??where he is provided with his very own personal manservantâ??Rakoff takes us on a bitingly funny grand tour of our culture of excess. He comes away from his explorations hilariously horrified. At once a Wildean satire of our ridiculous culture of overconsumption and a plea for a little human decency, Donâ??t Get Too Comfortable shows that far from being bobos in paradise, weâ??re in a special circle of gilded-age hell.Read More
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- 0385510365
- 9780385510363
- David Rakoff
- 20 September 2005
- Doubleday Books
- Hardcover (Book)
- 240
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