โ Scribed by Terry Southern
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โI started reading The Magic Christian and I thought I was going to go insane . . . It was an incredible influence on me.โ โHunter S. Thompson
โ[The Magic Christian] is at once the most profoundly satiric and wildly comic account of our life and times in years.โ โNelson Algren
โTerry Southern is the most profoundly witty writer of our generation, and in The Magic Christian he surpasses Flaubertโs Bouvard et Pรฉcuchet , a work similarly inspired by conventional wisdomโs serene idiocy.โ โGore Vidal
โTerry Southern is the illegitimate son of Mack Sennet and Edna Saint Vincent Millay.โ โKurt Vonnegut
โTerry Southern was one of the first and best of the new wave of American writers, defining the cutting edge of black comedy.โ โJoseph Heller
In this uproarious and wicked cult-classic, Southern skewers American greed and pomposity
Guy Grand, an eccentric billionaire prankster, is rich enough to do whatever he likes. And what he likes is to carefully execute projects where he can cauterize by ridicule what the rest of the world ignores: complacency, greed, corruption, and idiocy. Determined to โmake it hot for people,โ Grand spends his billions staging a series of hilarious, sometimes bewildering stunts, lampooning along the way the American holy cows of money, status, power, beauty, media, and stardom. Concocting deliciously perverse mayhem, he throws a million one-hundred-dollar bills into an enormous vat of steaming offal, proving just what people will do for money, and he promotes a new silky shampoo that turns hair to wire and a deodorant that becomes a time-released stench-bomb. He inserts subliminally suggestive and perverse images into well-loved classic films, takes a howitzer on safari, and brings a panther to a kennel club dog show. His most elaborate adventure is an ultra-exclusive cruise aboard the S.S. Magic Christian , where elite passengers are treated to a series of madcap indignities.
The Magic Christian is a hilarious and savagely satiric view of American commercialism, rich in Southernโs deft handling of detail, dialogue, and delightful deviancy.
This ebook features an illustrated biography of Terry Southern including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the authorโs estate.
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In this uproarious and wicked cult-classic, Southern skewers American greed and pomposity Guy Grand, an eccentric billionaire prankster, is rich enough to do whatever he likes. And what he likes is to carefully execute projects where he can cauterize by ridicule what the rest of the world ignores:
**In this uproarious and wicked cult-classic, Southern skewers American greed and pomposity** Guy Grand, an eccentric billionaire prankster, is rich enough to do whatever he likes. And what he likes is to carefully execute projects where he can cauterize by ridicule what the rest of the world ignor
Another deliciously seasonal and heart-warming tale from the Sunday Times bestselling author. In the pretty Lancashire village of Middlemoss, Lizzy is on the verge of leaving her serially unfaithful husband, Tom, when tragedy strikes. Good job she has welcome distractions in the form of her Christm