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Terry Southern

The Magic Christian

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The New York Times-bestselling author's cult classic skewers America's obsession with money, fame, guns, and sex-A satirical gem (John Berendt). 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 make it hot for people, 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 per… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-4532-1731-3
  • EAN: 9781453217313
  • Produktnummer: 31908948
  • Verlag: Open Road Media
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
  • Seitenangabe: 148 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 4'178 KB

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Terry Southern (1924-1995) was an American author and screenwriter. His satirical novels-including the bestselling cult classics Candy (1958) and The Magic Christian (1959)-established Southern as one of the leading literary voices of the sixties. He was also nominated for Academy Awards for his screenplays of Dr. Strangelove (written with Stanley Kubrick and Peter George) and Easy Rider (written with Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper). His other books include Flash and Filigree (1958), Red-Dirt Marijuana and Other Tastes (1967), Blue Movie (1970), and Texas Summer (1991). In later years, he wrote for Saturday Night Live and lectured on screenwriting at New York University and Columbia University.

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