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The story of a devilishly clever international financier/marketing wizard and his young apprentice, My Idea of Fun is both a frighteningly dark subterranean exploration of capitalism run rampant and a wickedly sharp, technically acute display of linguistic pyrotechnics that glows with pure white-hot brilliance.
Ian Wharton is a very ordinary young man until he is taken under the wing of a gentleman known variously as Mr. Broadhurst, Samuel Northcliff, and finally and conclusively simply as the Fat Controller, Loud-mouthed, impeccably tailored, a fount of bombastic erudition, the Fat Controller initiates Ian into the dark secrets of his arts -- of marketing, money, and the human psyche -- and takes Ian, and the reader, on a wild voyage around the edges of reality.
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Ian Wharton is a very ordinary young man until he is taken under the wing of a gentleman known variously as Mr. Broadhurst, Samuel Northcliff, and finally and conclusively simply as the Fat Controller, Loud-mouthed, impeccably tailored, a fount of bombastic erudition, the Fat Controller initiates Ian into the dark secrets of his arts -- of marketing, money, and the human psyche -- and takes Ian, and the reader, on a wild voyage around the edges of reality.
Blackly comic, comically erudite and perversely bloody." -- Boston Globe
"Dazzling.... An unforgettably soul.... Self leaves little doubt that we are in the presence of a gifted and courageous mind." -- Miami Herald
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- PublisherBLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLc,
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 0747582335
- ISBN 13 9780747582335
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages384
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Book Description Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neu Neuware, Importqualität, , Sofortversand - When the young Ian Wharton first meets Mr Broadhurst, he is completely unaware of the influence he will come to exert over his life as The Fat Controller - a constant companion and confidant and also the obese, erudite manifestation of Ian s mental illness. As Ian s idea of fun becomes increasingly extreme, the reader is taken to a place where morality is eroded by the dull grind of modernity and everything becomes admissable. Seller Inventory # INF1000136990
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