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Product Identifiers
PublisherAtria Books
ISBN-101501189042
ISBN-139781501189043
eBay Product ID (ePID)239653715
Product Key Features
Book TitleBob Honey Who Just Do Stuff : a Novel
Number of Pages176 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2018
TopicAbsurdist, Satire, Literary
GenreFiction
AuthorSean Penn
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight10 oz
Item Length8.4 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2017-060020
ReviewsPenn paints with a broadly satirical, Vonnegut-ian brush. . . . he gives nods (by way of sly footnotes) to the likes of David Foster Wallace and Thomas Pynchon. . . . It's good fun [and] a provocative debut., It seems wrong to say that so dystopian a novel is great fun to read, but it's true. I suspect that Thomas Pynchon and Hunter S. Thompson would love this book., Charmingly weird...Penn takes on an ambitious challenge here, and he succeeds spectacularly. Bob is a wonderful character, the kind of guy you can't take your eyes off... that's part of the book's almost immeasurable charm.
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal813/.6
Synopsis" It seems wrong to say that so dystopian a novel is great fun to read, but it's true. I suspect that Thomas Pynchon and Hunter S. Thompson would love this book. " --Salman Rushdie From legendary actor and activist Sean Penn comes a scorching, darkly funny novel about Bob Honey--a modern American man, entrepreneur, and part-time assassin. Bob Honey has a hard time connecting with other people, especially since his divorce. He's tired of being marketed to every moment, sick of a world where even an orgasm isn't real until it is turned into a tweet. A paragon of old-fashioned American entrepreneurship, Bob sells septic tanks to Jehovah's Witnesses and arranges pyrotechnic displays for foreign dictators. He's also a contract killer for an off-the-books program run by a branch of US intelligence that targets the elderly, the infirm, and others who drain this consumption-driven society of its resources. When a nosy journalist starts asking questions, Bob can't decide if it's a chance to form some sort of new friendship or the beginning of the end for him. With treason on everyone's lips, terrorism in everyone's sights, and American political life sinking to ever-lower standards, Bob decides it's time to make a change--if he doesn't get killed by his mysterious controllers or exposed in the rapacious media first. A thunderbolt of provocative words and startling images, Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff marks the fiction debut of one of America's most acclaimed artists.
LC Classification NumberPS3616.E5555B63 2018
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- 10. Apr. 2018
Good Idea But Didn't Work (for me)
I love Sean Penn but this book was very strange...I gave up reading it after only a couple of chapters.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Neu
- 16. Mai. 2018
Awesome book
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- 17. Apr. 2018
Sean Penn is brilliant
Sean Penn is good at everything he does. This is the product of a very creative mind with terrific imagination.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Neu
