Kategoria BISAC: Fiction >> Satire

Mistaken for a famous but reclusive author of the same name, lonely Shriver attends a writers' conference at a small Midwestern liberal arts college. Completely unfamiliar with the novel he supposedly wrote and utterly unprepared for the magnitude of the reputation that precedes him, Shriver is feted, fawned over, featured at stuffy...

Good help is hard to find these days, even for someone as powerful as the horned and hooved, gloriously evil, master of the universe Mephistopheles. Having gone to the trouble of writing a manual on how to serve the Dark Lord in everyday life, one would assume the business of lost souls would be booming. From catchy motivational statements like "Own the horns," to clear-cut, easy-to-follow instructions such as "Men should be clean-shaven so as not to appear to have evil intentions," to wise insights: "Ignore the big picture. The Devil is always in the details," the guide should ensure no...

Originally published in 1997, Resentment was the first in Gary Indiana's now-classic trilogy (followed in 1999 by Three Month Fever: The Andrew Cunanan Story and in 2003 by Depraved Indifference) chronicling the more-or-less permanent state of -depraved indifference- that characterized American life at the millennium's end.

In Resentment, Seth, a New York--based writer arrives in Los Angeles (where he has history and friends) in mid-August, 1994, to observe what will become the marathon parricide trial of the wealthy, athletic, and troubled Martinez...

When a scientist experimenting on humans in a sanatorium near Moscow gives a growth serum to a dwarf oil mogul, the newly heightened businessman runs off with the experimenter's wife, and a series of mysterious deaths and crimes commences. Fantastical and wonderfully strange, this political parable has an uncanny resonance with today's Russia under Putin.

Oleg Kashin is a...

A sure satire hinged on a droll, mid-life love story, Spare Parts lampoons the media, military and politics and celebrates grass roots initiative in a post-9/11 world.

In the autumn of 2002, emotionally burned-out New Yorker Hunter Barnhill is resettling in Massachusetts' bucolic Berkshire Hills when a massive, pre-dawn explosion rocks the hills, a helicopter thunders over his farmhouse, and bulldozers rip across his property. Highway construction hurls Hunter onto a harrowing and hilarious path that connects small town machinations with big time political manipulations and...

Take a family feud, add a heap of hot-button issues, toss in a healthy dose of farce, and what do you get? A hilarious new spin on the classic film, "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner," reimagined to reflect some of the absurdities of today's political times.

One fine day, Amanda Worthington, daughter of wealth and privilege, returns home from college with shocking news. At her side is boyfriend Brian Grace, the son of strict social conservatives who, by the way, will be arriving any minute now. The Graces' visit--and...