Kategoria BISAC: Fiction >> Satire

"The Last Eucharist" has as its beginning an image of a man, both legs amputated just below the knee, doing a headstand on the sidewalk outside of a cinema.

Looking at the world through satirical eyes, this book shines a bright light on human foibles. And author Ian T. King's sarcastic humor makes unusual sense out of a chaotic world in the same vein as satirists such as George Saunders and Joseph Heller.

Navigating the line between illusion and reality, the plot flows from the scene at the Palais de Theatre in Jackrabbit, Arizona, toward a chance meeting between Thomas, the...

When newly-minted attorney Victor Marlow joins Ralston & Holcombe, he expects it to live up to its reputation as a place of serious work and serious play. What he uncovers is a place where privacy is erased by a cultish program of surveillance and manipulation, where sexuality is packaged with profit, and where each employee is forced to choose between joining a bizarre cast of deviants or professional ruin.

The Nouvelles Recreations et Joyeaux Devis of Bonaventure des Periers are here translated for the first time into modern English. The translators have been successful in retaining the vitality of this important French Renaissance satirist, turning his colloquial sixteenth-century French into equally colloquial and lively American. The translation of the 129 tales is prefaced by a biographical study of des Periers both as man and artist, and a critical bibliography is also included.

The Divine Lie Or Eating Soup With A Fork is a somewhat satirical account of western civilization beginning with an encounter between a man sitting in a bathtub and a guy on a black horse, and ending sometime next Tuesday. The guy on the horse is referred to by historians as Alexander the Grape... excuse me... Great. The guy in the tub is Diogenes or Dio for short. The book is based on real historical figures, however, some of the events described probably didn't occur exactly as written. There is, for example, no evidence to show that ballroom dancing has anything to do with testicles....

Marcus is a socially awkward, steroid-ridden bodybuilder who happens to be the biggest fan of the first Super Mario Bros.game...ever. His toilet seat lifts to reveal a Mario head. A picture of Shigeru Miyamoto, the inventor of the game, sits atop his TV. Now, clad in a Mario-printed outer and underwear, he ventures to a three-day social gathering of rabid Mario fanatics.

He dreams of finding long-lost brothers and sisters, of being able to talk to people who understand him. But forging life-long connections isn't easy at a gathering lorded over by a living yet pixelated King Mario who...

A general election in Albion usually produces a clear winner but, when it does not, those who feel they should have won cannot resist the temptation to hold another one. Electorates, however, tend to be less enthusiastic a second time round and politicians struggle to engage their attention, so when a distinguished personage suggested the weather was the root of all Albion's woes and that it might be a good idea to tow the island away, certain politicians find the suggestion irresistible.

The 'Island they towed Away' tells of the unpredictable consequences of such an extraordinary...