My Idea of Fun: A Cautionary Tale - Brossura

Self, Will

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ISBN 10: 0679750932 ISBN 13: 9780679750932

Casa editrice: Vintage Books, 1995

Riassunto

The story of a devilishly clever international financier/marketing wizard and his young apprentice, My Idea of Fun is both a frighteningly dark subterranean exploration of capitalism run rampant and a wickedly sharp, technically acute display of linguistic pyrotechnics that glows with pure white-hot brilliance.

Ian Wharton is a very ordinary young man until he is taken under the wing of a gentleman known variously as Mr. Broadhurst, Samuel Northcliff, and finally and conclusively simply as the Fat Controller, Loud-mouthed, impeccably tailored, a fount of bombastic erudition, the Fat Controller initiates Ian into the dark secrets of his arts -- of marketing, money, and the human psyche -- and takes Ian, and the reader, on a wild voyage around the edges of reality.

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Recensione:

Blackly comic, comically erudite and perversely bloody." -- Boston Globe

"Dazzling.... An unforgettably soul.... Self leaves little doubt that we are in the presence of a gifted and courageous mind." -- Miami Herald

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Su questa edizione

• Editore: Vintage Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0679750932
• ISBN 13: 9780679750932
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 320