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Every weekend, in basements and parking lots across the country, young men with good white-collar jobs and absent fathers take off their shoes and shirts and fight each other barehanded just as long as they have to.

Not since Vonnegut's "Mother Night" and Kosinski's "Being There" has there been as dark and telling a satire on the wages of fame and the bedrock lunacy of the modern world.

Жизнь — увлекательнее самого изощренного вымысла… Жизнь — страшнее самого потрясающего романа «ужасов»… Добро пожаловать в РЕАЛЬНЫЙ МИР! В мир легендарной «культуры поколения «Х». В мир, где обитают «интеллектуалы кайф-культуры» — актеры, писатели, рок-музыканты… В мир уютного ада хосписов, блеска и нищеты бодибилдеров и маленьких трагедий «больших парней» — рестлеров. В мир, многогранность которого превосходит самые смелые ожидания!

Medical school dropout and former sex addict Victor Mancini comes up a scam to pay for his mother's Ahzheimer care by pretending to be choking in a restaurant and coning the individuals who "save" him into giving him money

Takes the form of a 'coma diary' kept by one Misty Wilmot as her husband lies senseless in hospital after a suicide attempt. Once, she was an art student dreaming of creativity and freedom; now, after marrying Peter at art school and being brought back to Waytansea Island, she's been reduced to the condition of a resort hotel maid.

"A novel about the apocalyptic marketing possibilities of female pleasure. Sisters will be doing it for themselves. And doing it. And doing it. And doing it some more ... Penny Harrigan is a low-level associate in a big Manhattan law firm with an apartment in Queens and no love life at all. So it comes as a great shock when she finds herself invited to dinner by one C. Linus Maxwell, aka "Climax-Well," a software mega-billionaire and lover of the most gorgeous and accomplished women on earth. After dining at Manhattan's most exclusive restaurant, he whisks Penny off to a hotel suite in Paris, where he proceeds, notebook in hand, to bring her to previously undreamed-of heights of orgasmic pleasure for days on end. What's not to like? This: Penny discovers that she is a test subject for the final development of a line of sex toys to be marketed in a nationwide chain of boutiques called Beautiful You. So potent and effective are these devices that women by the millions line up outside the stores on opening day and then lock themselves in their room with them and stop coming out. Except for batteries. Maxwell's plan for erotically enabled world domination must be stopped. But how?"--Amazon.com

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