Results for: books tagged ‘Satire’
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead: Tom Stoppard
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is a play which, as it were, takes place in the wings of Hamlet, and finds both humour and poignancy in the situation of the ... More
Living in Oblivion and Eating Crow: Tom DiCillo
Living in Oblivion is a satiric look behind the scenes of the new wave of independent film-makers in America today - the world of Hal Hartley, Richard Linklater, Gus Van ... More
Tom Stoppard Plays 1: Tom Stoppard
The plays in this collection reveal in combination the 'frivolous' and 'serious' aspects of Tom Stoppard's talent: his sense of fun, his sense of theatre, his sense of the absurd, ... More
Karaoke & Cold Lazarus: Dennis Potter
'Karaoke and Cold Lazarus are as fitting a summation as they are a testament both to my character and to my career as I should ever want.' Dennis PotterIn the ... More
Sweet Smell of Success: Ernest Lehman
With lines so sharp you could shave yourself with them, Sweet Smell of Success is the smartest, most cynical American film of the 1950s. Written by Ernest Lehman (North by ... More
Sleep With Me: Hanif Kureishi
Set over the course of a summer weekend in the country, Sleep With Me is a fast-moving, tragi-comic satire, exposing the emotionally and sexually chaotic lives of a group of ... More
Me by Jimmy (Big Boy) Valente: Garrison Keillor
This is a political satire by one of America's best-loved humorists. Abandoned by his mother at birth, little Clifford Oxnaard grows up in south Minneapolis, tormented by bullies until an ... More
Wilson: David Mamet
A literary jeu d'esprit, a modern-day Tristram Shandy, a hilarious satire on false scholarship, Wilson is David Mamet at his best and most mischievous. When the internet - and the ... More
Tom Stoppard: Faber Critical Guide: Jim Hunter
Babylon: Victor Pelevin
As a poet, Tartarsky is a failure. As a copywriter for one of Moscow's biggest advertising firms he makes $2,000 in ten minutes - and that's before the cocaine kicks ... More
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