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Only Americans Burn in Hell (Paperback): Jarett Kobek Only Americans Burn in Hell (Paperback)
Jarett Kobek 1
R281 Discovery Miles 2 810 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

'Brilliantly funny ... the best satire of our contemporary nightmare that you will ever see, and very possibly the last' Alan Moore

It's 2019 and America is ruled over by a billionaire reality TV star. Its media is owned by a transnational class of the shameless and the depraved. And its people have been silently robbed of their wealth, their dignity and their democracy.

In this brave new world, going to see a superhero movie counts as activism, and arguing with the other serfs on social media is political engagement. BUT EVERYTHING'S FINE - as long as you never, ever ask yourself who makes money from the ticket sales and the ratings, or who owns Twitter.

It's 2019 and Jarett Kobek has done the only thing a dissident American novelist can do in those circumstances: he's joined the party and written fantasy novel about an immortal fairy queen and a shadowy billionaire philanthropist sheikh called Dennis.

Hilarious, provocative and unmissable, Only Americans Burn in Hell is the only novel for our certifiably insane times.

I Hate the Internet (Paperback): Jarett Kobek I Hate the Internet (Paperback)
Jarett Kobek
R376 Discovery Miles 3 760 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
I Hate the Internet - A novel (Paperback, Main): Jarett Kobek I Hate the Internet - A novel (Paperback, Main)
Jarett Kobek 1
R271 R235 Discovery Miles 2 350 Save R36 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In New York in the middle of the twentieth century, comic book companies figured out how to make millions from comics without paying their creators anything. In San Francisco at the start of the twenty-first century, tech companies figured out how to make millions from online abuse without paying its creators anything. In the 1990s, Adeline drew a successful comic book series that ended up making her kind-of famous. In 2013, Adeline aired some unfashionable opinions that made their way onto the Internet. The reaction of the Internet, being a tool for making millions in advertising revenue from online abuse, was predictable. The reaction of the Internet, being part of a culture that hates women, was to send Adeline messages like 'Drp slut ... hope u get gang rape.' Set in a San Francisco hollowed out by tech money, greed and rampant gentrification, I Hate the Internet is a savage indictment of the intolerable bullshit of unregulated capitalism and an uproarious, hilarious but above all furious satire of our Internet Age.

The Future Won't Be Long (Paperback): Jarett Kobek The Future Won't Be Long (Paperback)
Jarett Kobek 1
R269 R244 Discovery Miles 2 440 Save R25 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

It's the tail-end of 1986 and Baby is the freshest-faced, starriest-eyed young homo in all of New York City, straight off the bus from closeted backwoods Wisconsin. Adeline is his rich-art-school-kid saviour with a bizarre transatlantic drawl and a spare bed.

The Future Won't Be Long follows Baby and Adeline as they cling to each other for dear life through a decade of mad, bad New York life punctuated by the deaths of Warhol, Basquiat and Wojnarowicz and the forcible gentrification of the East Village. While Adeline develops into the artist she never really expected to become, Baby falls into a twilight zone of clubbing, ketamine and late-capitalistic sexual excess. As he struggles to find his way out again, Baby will test the strength of a friendship that had seemed unbreakable.

Riotously funny, provocative but tender, The Future Won't Be Long is a sprawling, ecstatic elegy to New York, and to the friendships that have the power to change - and save - our lives.

Motor Spirit - The Long Hunt for the Zodiac (Paperback): Jarett Kobek Motor Spirit - The Long Hunt for the Zodiac (Paperback)
Jarett Kobek
R496 Discovery Miles 4 960 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Only Americans Burn In Hell (Paperback): Jarett Kobek Only Americans Burn In Hell (Paperback)
Jarett Kobek
R396 Discovery Miles 3 960 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
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