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Don't Get Too Comfortable|David Rakoff

Don't Get Too Comfortable : The Indignities of Coach Class, the Torments of Low Thread Count, the Never- Ending Quest for Artisanal Olive Oil, and Othe

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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.

Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780767916035
  • ISBN-10: 0767916034
  • Publisher: Anchor Books
  • Publish Date: September 2006
  • Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.1 x 0.7 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.4 pounds
  • Page Count: 240

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