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End of the World Is Flat [Pehme köide]

  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 304 pages, kõrgus x laius: 198x129 mm
  • Ilmumisaeg: 16-Aug-2021
  • Kirjastus: Lightning
  • ISBN-10: 178563240X
  • ISBN-13: 9781785632402
Teised raamatud teemal:
  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 304 pages, kõrgus x laius: 198x129 mm
  • Ilmumisaeg: 16-Aug-2021
  • Kirjastus: Lightning
  • ISBN-10: 178563240X
  • ISBN-13: 9781785632402
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A satirical comedy featuring Christopher Columbus, a tech billionaire, and a global delusion. Mel Winterbourne is the founder of a small, single-issue charity in the obscure field of mapmaking. Its success in achieving modest aims attracts the attention of handsome tech billionaire Joey Talavera, who evicts Mel and hijacks her charity for his own ends: to convince the world that the earth is flat. Although his chances of doing so seem slim, Flat Earthery is an idea whose time has come. With the historical reputation of Christopher Columbus in free-fall, old-style &;globularism&; becomes heretical for a new generation of angry, anti-Establishment free-thinkers. Teachers, politicians, and celebrities face ruin if they refuse to sign up to the new orthodoxy. For Mel, something must be done. Teaming up with a pariah tabloid journalist and a faded writer of gross-out movie comedies, she sets out to challenge Talavera and his deranged beliefs. Will history and the billionaire&;s own family origins be their unexpected ally? Using his trademark mix of history and satire to poke fun at modern foibles, Simon Edge is at his razor-sharp best in a caper that may be much more relevant than you think.

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This sparkling little comic novel is more than playful: its a satire of Swiftian ferocity, a thinly veiled parody of a prevailing madness of the hour Matthew Parris, columnist, The Times; A bracingly sharp satire on the sleep of reason and the tyranny of twaddle Francis Wheen, author of How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World; Skewers the trans rights row with some nifty, often snort-inducingly funny satire The Times; A biting satire Andrew Doyle, author of The New Puritans; I laughed so hard I nearly fell in my cauldron. A masterpiece Julie Bindel, author of Feminism for Women; This is Animal Farm for the era of gender lunacy, with jokes Jane Harris, author of Sugar Money; A satire that skewers the insanity of gender ideology with the wit and brilliance of a modern-day Swift Helen Joyce, author of Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality; Edge holds social foibles and cod science up to ridicule with grace, wit and charm Helen Dale, The Critic; Mixes history with a hilarious spoof of identity politics, virtue signalling and cancel culture Saga Magazine; More than a clever jab at trans ideology: a warning about the vulnerability of liberal values Jo Bartosch, Lesbian & Gay News; This merry romp punctures the idiocy that would turn language and good sense upside down and try to divide us all into either true believers or bigots Simon Fanshawe, author of The Power of Difference; Wonderful. A must-read for all Julian Vigo, Savage Minds magazine and podcast; This very, very interesting book about the flat-earthers of the world Mike Graham, Talk Radio; Turns out Ive been proven wrong: the world is not beyond satire. I know this thanks to Simon Edge and his very funny book Jonathan Kay, Quillette podcast; In a refreshingly pointed reflection on the zeitgeist a light-hearted lampoon, underpinned with wit and intelligence Edge crafts an entirely conceivable plot, a parody that is awkwardly close to reality Yorkshire Times.

Simon Edge was born in Chester and read philosophy at Cambridge University. He was editor of the pioneering London paper Capital Gay before becoming a gossip columnist on the Evening Standard and then a feature writer on the Daily Express, where he was also a theatre critic for many years. He has an MA in Creative Writing from City University, London, where he also taught literary criticism. He is the author of four novels: The Hopkins Conundrum, longlisted for the Waverton Good Read Award, The Hurtle of Hell, A Right Royal Face-Off, and Anyone for Edmund?.