Kill Your Friends: A Novel - Couverture souple

Niven, John

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0061690619 ISBN 13 : 9780061690617

Editeur : Harper Perennial, 2008

Synopsis

Book by Niven John

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture :

'The filthiest, blackest, most shocking, most hilarious debut novel I've read in years' India Knight

Meet Steven Stelfox.
It's London 1997: New Labour is sweeping into power and Britpop is at its zenith. A&R man Stelfox is slashing and burning his way through the music industry, fuelled by greed and inhuman quantities of cocaine, searching for the next hit record amid a relentless orgy of self-gratification.
But as the hits dry up and the industry begins to change, Stelfox must take the notion of cutthroat business practices to murderous new levels in a desperate attempt to salvage his career.

'Might well be the best British novel since Trainspotting' Word

'An all-out assault, a withering, scabrous attack on every part of the filthy machine... Stelfox is a creation of unparalleled awfulness, chronically sexist, racist and everything else-ist. He is funny, too... You laugh though you know you shouldn't' Independent

'Niven's insider knowledge, coupled with the kind of headlong, febrile prose that would have Hunter S. Thompson happily emptying both barrels into the sky, results in a novel that is cripplingly funny' The Times

'Wonderfully nasty... Extraordinarily vicious, deeply cynical and thoroughly depraved, but its also bed-wettingly funny... American Psycho meets Spinal Tap... except more evil, more shocking and much, much funnier' Scotsman

Quatrième de couverture :

It's not dog-eat-dog around here...it's dog-gang-rapes-dog-then-tortures-him-for-five-days-before-burying-him-alive-and-taking-out-every-motherfucker-the-dog-has-ever-known.

Meet Steven Stelfox.

London 1997: New Labour is sweeping into power and Britpop is at its zenith. Twenty-seven-year-old A&R man Stelfox is slashing and burning his way through the music industry, a world where 'no one knows anything' and where careers are made and broken by chance and the fickle tastes of the general public - 'Yeah, those animals' .

Fuelled by greed and inhuman quantities of cocaine Stelfox blithely criss-crosses the globe ( 'New York, Cologne, Texas, Miami, Cannes: you shout at waiters and sign credit card slips and all that really changes is the quality of the porn') searching for the next hit record amid a relentless orgy of self-gratification.

But as the hits dry up and the industry begins to change, Stelfox must take the notion of cutthroat business practices to murderous new levels in a desperate attempt to salvage his career.

Kill Your Friends is a dark, satirical and hysterically funny evisceration of the record business, a place populated by frauds, charlatans and bluffers, where ambition is a higher currency than talent, and where it seems anything can be achieved - as long as you want it badly enough.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Harper Perennial
• Date d'édition: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0061690619
• ISBN 13: 9780061690617
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 352