Synopses & Reviews
Review
"One hell of a satire, one hell of a world." Roger Rosenblatt, bestselling author of Beet and Lapham Rising
Review
"Konstantinou's dazzling debut generates laughs while deliciously skewering today's hyperkinetic media, religious zealotry, and international politics. One of the most mordantly funny satires of the new millennium." Booklist
Synopsis
The United States and its Freedom Coalition allies are conducting serial invasions across the globe, including an attack on the anti-capitalist rebels of Northern California. The Middle East — now a single consumerist Caliphate led by Lebanese pop singer Caliph Fred — is in an uproar after an attack on the al-Aqsa Mosque gets televised on the Holy Land Channel.
The world is on the brink of a total radioactive, no-survivors war, and human-kind's last hope is Eliot R. Vanderthorpe, Jr., celebrity heir, debauched party animal, and Elvis impersonation scholar. But Eliot's got his own problems. His evangelical dad is breeding red heifers in anticipation of the Rapture. Eliot's dissertation is in the toilet. And he has a doppelganger. An evil doppelganger.
Synopsis
A fresh and intelligent debut that imagines the world of 2029, where many of the crises faced today — from celebrity mania to reckless foreign policy and ubiquitous government surveillance — have escalated to ridiculous new heights.
About the Author
Lee Konstantinou fled the corporate world to join a doctoral program in the English department at Stanford University. Born in New York City, he now lives in San Francisco.