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Synopsis
In this brilliant satire of our media-saturated culture, Las Vegas is to host a spectacle - - Bear v. Shark II. A basic question is being asked: 'Who would win if a bear got in a fight with a shark?' All of America is desperate to get a ticket but it is young Curtis Norman who, with an essay entitled 'Bear v Shark: A Reason to Live', wins a national writing contest and four tickets to the show. As he and his family head across the country, they are besieged by a dizzying barrage of TV and radio personalities, Freudians, theologians and more, as the whole country bets, debates, takes sides and argues over who is going to win. His father, Larry Norman, is having a silent crisis, and these meaningless exchanges leave him a little disenchanted and world-weary, so it is in an ambivalent mood about the impending event that he finally arrives in Vegas with his family in tow, for what turns out to be something of an apocalyptic climax.
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Review
"I couldn’t put the book down." -- Books.Mag, Issue 11
"Like Don DeLillo on acid" -- Publihsers Weekly
"The cult book of the year. It's NO LOGO meets FIGHT CLUB. It makes you want to blow up your TV" -- Seven Magazine
"Think Pynchon, think George Saunders, but most of all welcome a new, achingly funny voice of dissent" -- Metro
"Very Funny" -- New York Times
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Uniquely literary in the vein of George Saunders, Rick Moody and Kurt Vonnegut, brilliantly clever, loaded with gags and utterly captivating, Bear v. Shark is unlike anything you’ve ever read before.
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- PublisherBloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 0747561516
- ISBN 13 9780747561514
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages256
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