The Magic Christian - by Terry Southern (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><b> The 60th-anniversary edition of Terry Southern's "great comic novel of 1959" (Frank Rich) reissued with a new introduction by National Book Award nominee Chris Bachelder </b><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>As the novelist of <i>Flash and Filigree</i> and <i>The Magic Christian</i> and cowriter of <i>Dr. Strangelove</i> and <i>Easy Rider</i>, Terry Southern helped define the sixties. Now, sixty years later, his dark humor and biting satire of American society and all its corruption, sex, money, status, power, and stardom, takes on new relevance. <p/> When Dwight Garner reviewed the anniversary edition of Southern's <i>Candy</i> in the <i>New York Times</i> he pointed to its significance in today's political climate, stating that "<i>Candy</i> works in the era of #MeToo in part because it so coyly subverts the male gaze. The men who leer after Candy are truly fatuous primates, fit for little but gibbering at the moon." In this 60th anniversary edition of <i>The Magic Christian</i>, we have another searing Southern comic novel--this one a story of a mayhem-making billionaire, and a reminder of just how entrenched American greed and corruption is in our history. <p/> Sir Guy Grand is determined to create disorder in the material world and willing to spare no expense to do it. His ultimate goal is to prove his theory that there is nothing so degrading or so distasteful that someone won't do for money. A satire of America's obsession with bigness, toughness, TV, guns, and money, <i>The Magic Christian</i> is a hilarious and wickedly original novel from a true comic genius.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"I started reading The Magic Christian and I thought I was going to go insane . . . It was an incredible influence on me."?--Hunter S. Thompson <p/>"Terry Southern is the most profoundly witty writer of our generation, and in <i>The Magic Christian</i> he surpasses Flaubert's <i>Bouvard et Pécuchet</i>, a work similarly inspired by conventional wisdom's serene idiocy."--Gore Vidal<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Terry Southern (1924-1995) is the bestselling author of <i>Candy</i>, <i>Flash and Filigree, </i> <i>Blue Movie</i>, and <i>Red-Dirt Marijuana and Other Tastes</i>. An Academy Award-nominated screenwriter, his film credits include <i>Dr. Strangelove</i>, <i>Easy Rider</i>, <i>Barbarella</i>, <i>The Loved One</i>, and <i>The Cincinnati Kid</i>, as well as an adaptation of <i>The Magic Christian</i>.
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