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Don't Get Too Comfortable

✍ Scribed by David Rakoff

Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Year: 2005
Tongue: English
Weight: 163 KB
Edition: 1st ed
Category: Fiction

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✦ Synopsis

David Rakoff takes us on a bitingly funny grand tour of our culture of excess. Whether he 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.

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