Sellevision - 2nd Edition by Augusten Burroughs (Paperback)

About the Book Darkly funny and gleefully mean-spirited, an account of the greed and insanity of a fictional home shopping network Book Synopsis The hilarious first novel by the #1 bestselling author of Running with Scissors , Dry , A Wolf at the Table , and You Better Not Cry , Sellevision is Augusten Burroughs darkly funny and vastly entertaining skewering of a very troubled home-shopping channel. Welcome to the world of Sellevision, Americas premier retail broadcasting network. When Max Andrews, the much loved and handsome (that is, lonely and gay) host of a Toys for Tots segment, accidentally exposes himself in front of millions of kids, Sellevision faces its first big scandal. As Max struggles to find a new job in television, the popular and perky host Peggy Jean Smythe is receiving sinister emails from a stalker. Popping pills and drinking heavily, she fails to notice that her husband is spending a lot of time with the young babysitter who lives next door. Then theres Leigh, whose affair with married Sellevision boss Howard Toast is going nowhere until she announces their relationship on air. A blistering satire of our overcharged, scandal-obsessed world, Sellevision is an absolute howl . . . wicked fun (New York Daily News ). Review Quotes One of the most compelling and screamingly funny voices of the new century. -- USA Today Acidic entertainment. -- Entertainment Weekly Sellevision is good company for the beach or the plane. . . . The material sparkles. -- Booklist Savvy, very entertaining. Is there a funnier combination than fast-moving soap opera and tawdry comedy? Underneath all the lunacy lies a grim truth: the thin line separating grotesque satire and everyday reality has been erased and will never exist again. -- Bret Easton Ellis, author of American Psycho Sellevision is brilliant, subversive, and marvelously evil. In this stunningly fresh debut, Augusten Burroughs has redefined the edge. This is TV Guide for the morally bereft and spiritually bankrupt. Thank God. I feel queasy I didnt write it. -- Suzanne Finnamore, author of Otherwise Engaged A painfully hilarious look at the dark side of consumer capitalism and the perils of third-tier celebrity. Days after reading it, Im still buoyed by the invigorating malice I encountered on virtually every page. Augusten Burroughs has slam-dunked the zeitgeist. -- Robert Rodi, author of Kept Boy About the Author Augusten Burroughs was raised in Amherst, Massachusetts. An advertising copywriter since the age of 19, he lives in New York City. Sellevision is his first novel.