Only Americans Burn in Hell - Hardcover

Kobek, Jarett

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 178816220X ISBN 13: 9781788162203

Publisher: Serpent's Tail, 2019

Synopsis

'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.

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Review:

As radical as Samuel Richardson or Laurence Sterne ... Kobek makes you laugh and think at the same time (STEWART LEE)

A smoking hot and hilarious dissection of why the world is in such a mess right now (DORTHE NORS)

The only contemporary American novelist who matters (MATTHEW SPECKTOR)

The most important and hilarious faerie story ever written (IVY POCHODA)

Inspired ... the energy and invention are irresistible. It's hard to disagree that mad times require a mad novel (Richard Preston Times)

A real tour de force (Daily Mail)

On top form, Kobek is like a great stand-up comic, bringing to his writing a manic rush of urgency, intensity and actual danger (Herald)

Kurt Vonnegut meets Stewart Lee meets a Twitter-thread wormhole. Jarett Kobek's writing is hilarious and punchy, repeatedly drawing in the reader with running jokes and one-liners before delivering mighty slaps to the face with some hard-hitting truths - reminders that, while we may laugh, all is not well ... Despite its genre-defying boldness, engagement with injustices and commentary on power systems, Only Americans Burn in Hell is without pretension and condescension. Kobek doesn't hold back in this hilarious and vicious criticism of all we take for granted. You shouldn't hold back from reading it (The Skinny)

Kobek is a genius, masquerading as a slob. From Batman fanboys to Instagram to Literary Death Match to sex - the honesty, accuracy and comic genius on display, stops the reader dead. (Bookmunch)

Kobek is as wildly unconventional, ruthlessly confrontational and brilliantly funny as he ever was (The Big Issue)

Book Description:

A despairingly hilarious satire of the modern world, from #MeToo to Trump, by the bestselling author of I Hate the Internet

About this edition

• Publisher: Serpent's Tail
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 178816220X
• ISBN 13: 9781788162203
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304