Death by Leisure: A Cautionary Tale - Couverture rigide

Ayres, Chris

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 080211881X ISBN 13 : 9780802118813

Editeur : Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press, 2009

Synopsis

Book by Ayres Chris

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

'Ayres is beautifully self-deprecating, very funny and he's clearly a brilliant blagger, all of which makes for a diverting read' (Daily Mail)

'Part anthropological study of LA, part self-deprecating comic misadventure' (Independent on Sunday)

'A hilarious look at the excesses of LA life, with a sobering undercurrent' (Daily Express)

'Hilarious, this is Hollywood laid bare' (The Sun)

Death by Leisure presents a delicious vicarious thrill for the reader (Herald)

'(Ayres) carries it off with wit, panache and wry social observation . . . this may be death for leisure but its reading for pleasure' (Tatler)

'Ayres second (book) chronicles his life as an LA show-bix hack. Highlights include when he takes a date to Michael Jackson's Neverland and slams a door in Mike Tyson's face' (GQ)

'A very funny book with nice comic timing' (Guardian)

'A frank, gonzo-esque account of his life among the glittering stars of Hollywood' (Gay Times)

Ayres, a Times journalist, not only has a gift for comedy . . . but nails the complicated character of the world's maddest, saddest city (thelondonpaper)

'(Ayres) is disarmingly honest and his many gaffes make hilarious reading' (Sunday Business Post)

'Hugely entertaining memoir' (Word)

Présentation de l'éditeur

After a brief and undignified stint as a war correspondent, Chris Ayres is exiled by his newspaper to Hollywood, where he lives in a building called The Leisureplex and sends celebrity tittle-tattle back home. Seduced by the apparently infinite wealth of LA, Ayres embarks on an ill-advised odyssey of self-gratification (in the name of research) and breaks first rule of foreign reporting: he goes native. Before long, he is an SUV-driving narcissist with a flat-screen TV in every room, eight pairs of designer flip-flops, a seven-digit overdraft, and a wife he met on the internet.

As always, however, disaster looms. After a fire the size of Luxembourg, a Biblical flood, and the apocalypse of Katrina, Ayres realises he is living on a precipice. Like a gonzo Great Gatsby, Death by Leisure is a savage and hilarious takedown of our times, and a wake-up call to aspiring Leisuretocrats everywhere.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 080211881X
• ISBN 13: 9780802118813
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible