|
|
Books > Sport & Leisure > Humour > Parodies & spoofs
In the run-up to Interpol's General Assembly, something is truly
amiss. The world's largest international police organisation is
heaving with internal strife, petty rivalries, and treachery. For
the Secretary General, re-election is not enough. What he wants is
a unanimous victory and he is willing to go to any lengths to
secure it. It will not be easy. Not only are others, both inside
and outside Interpol, trying to stop his re-election, but some hate
him so much that they are plotting his ultimate humiliation. His
enemies are legion; that much is clear. What is less clear is who
exactly is plotting against him, and which of his many, many
transgressions they want revenge for. As the date of the General
Assembly draws near, all parties redouble their efforts to get what
they want. The result is chaos. The result is farce. The result is
not Interpol's finest hour.
 |
Dad Magazine
(Paperback)
Jaya Saxena, Matt Lubchansky
1
|
R432
R312
Discovery Miles 3 120
Save R120 (28%)
|
Ships in 9 - 17 working days
|
|
|
This dad-centric satire looks like a real magazine (complete with
fake ads, subscription deals, and letters to the editor), but in
fact it's a hilarious and heartfelt satire of fatherhood in twenty
first-century America. With hard-hitting feature reporting (What's
Up with the Neighbor's Lawn? We Investigate), in-depth lifestyle
articles (Buying Shoes on eBay: A Guide), fashion tips (Rumpled
Brown Suit: Who Wore It Best), handy how-tos (A Visual Guide to
Packing the Car), and insightful opinion pieces (These Smoke
Detectors Are Too Damn Sensitive, If You Ask Me), this is the
perfect faux periodical for dads of every age, facial-hair style,
and sandals/socks combo. Photos, illustrations, and hilarious
advertisements throughout showcase all the frustrations, failures,
and funny moments that make up the face of modern fatherhood.
Hippocampus returns to Athens from Troy under a curse from Zeus. He
has only two days to sacrifice "that which he holds most dear" or
be damned to Hades. His frantic search involves the Oracle at
Delphi, Socrates and his girl-friend Asparagus. Partially inspired
by an Abbot and Costello routine Sophocles explores every aspect of
human life and a few in-human ones.
"Willy Loman, Nosferatu (or Biffo, the Vampyre Slayer)" is a parody
of two of the most beloved American stage classics, Arthur Miller's
"Death of a Salesman" and Tennessee Williams' "The Glass
Menagerie." It turns out that the "Loman Line" is not Miller's
lacerating examination of the selling of the American dream and his
sympathy for the soul of the everyman, but a line of the Undead
(Nosferatu) that have left a ruinous legacy of lunacy and calamity
behind them. Willy Loman finds himself brought back to life and
seeks revenge, while his two sons somehow become involved with the
Wingfield family from "A Glass Menagerie," who have all found
themselves reunited in Queens fifteen years after Willy's "first
death." Wally of WPDP3 says, "Read the first two and cry; read the
third and wonder why."
|
You may like...
White Pony
Chi Cheng, Scott Olson, …
CD
(1)
R230
Discovery Miles 2 300
A Spy In Time
Imraan Coovadia
Paperback
R300
R171
Discovery Miles 1 710
|