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.
Authors
David Rakoff
Additional Info
- Release Date: 2006-09-12
- Publisher: Anchor
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9780767916035
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