Don't Get Too Comfortable: The Indignities of Coach Class, the Torments of Low Thread Count, the Never-Ending Quest for Artisanal Olive Oil, and Other First World Problems
Author(s): David Rakoff
David Rakoff takes us on a bitingly funny grand tour of our culture of excess. Whether he is contrasting the elegance of one of the last flights of the supersonic Concorde with the good-times-and-chicken-wings populism of Hooters Air; working as a cabana boy at a South Beach hotel; or traveling to a private island off the coast of Belize to watch a soft-core video shoot--where he is provided with his very own personal manservant--rarely have greed, vanity, selfishness, and vapidity been so mercilessly skewered. Somewhere along the line, our healthy self-regard has exploded into obliterating narcissism; our manic getting and spending have now become celebrated as moral virtues. Simultaneously a Wildean satire and a plea for a little human decency, " Don't Get Too Comfortable" shows that far from being bobos in paradise, we're in a special circle of gilded-age hell.
Product Information
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- : Random House USA Inc
- : Random House Inc
- : 0.181
- : 01 November 2006
- : 201mm X 130mm X 18mm
- : United States
- : books
Special Fields
- : 222
- : Paperback / softback
- : David Rakoff