The Revenge of the Donut Boys: True Stories of Lust, Fame, Survival and Multiple Personality - Softcover

Sager, Mike

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9781568583501: The Revenge of the Donut Boys: True Stories of Lust, Fame, Survival and Multiple Personality

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ISBN 10: 1568583508 ISBN 13: 9781568583501

Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press, 2007

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The award-winning journalist author of Scary Monsters and Super Freaks offers a new collection of stories about mental illness and the dysfunctional undercurrent of American life, from the practices of midwestern swingers and the musical preferences of murderous youths to the anthropology of being beautiful in Hollywood. Original.

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“Sager plays Virgil in the modern American Inferno.” –Kirkus Reviews

“Like his journalistic precursors Tom Wolfe and Hunter S. Thompson, Sager writes frenetic, off-kilter pop-sociological profiles of Americans in all their vulgarity and vitality. He writes with flair, but only in the service of an omnivorous curiosity. He defies expectations in pieces that lesser writers would play for satire or sensationalism... a Whitmanesque ode to teeming humanity’s mystical unity.”–The New York Times Book Review

“Sager writes in convincingly novelistic detail and supple, pinpoint prose about the inner lives of a high school junior, a 92-year-old man, Slayer fans, swingers, struggling actors, Mike Ditka, and wildfire victims. The title piece is one of his best...A-.” – Entertainment Weekly

“Esquire writer-at-large Sager (Scary Monsters and Super Freaks) demonstrates a lively curiosity about other people’s lives, hopes, fears and disappointments in these 17 previously published articles. Sager’s nimble celebrity profiles include Emmy winner Roseanne Barr, who attributes her multiple-personality disorder to an abusive mother, but more affecting are the everyday struggles of “almost famous” actors Steve Bean and Lynn Clark, who stay sane in the face of numerous professional rejections. Sager’s best pieces showcase people battling nature: aging hippie and sandal-maker Lee Risler cuts off his own arm to free himself from a wrecked van and wears his stump as a badge of honor. Despite some forgetfulness and frailty, 92-year-old widower Glenn Brown Sanberg has a girlfriend with Alzheimer’s and writes a weekly newspaper column. In a whimsical yet satisfying search for other Mike Sagers the author finds instant kinship with a police captain, a politician and a preacher. These are savvy, deftly written highlights from a talented career.” –Publisher’s Weekly

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