Don't Get Too Comfortable
Author | : David Rakoff |
Publisher | : Anchor |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2005-09-20 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780385516839 |
ISBN-13 | : 0385516835 |
Rating | : 4/5 (39 Downloads) |
Download or read book Don't Get Too Comfortable written by David Rakoff and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2005-09-20 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. This edition includes an excerpt from David Rakoff's Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish.