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From the acclaimed writer, MTV creative leader, and author of A&R comes a wise, wicked, and hilarious novel about the business of television and the business of families, from an author who has richly earned his insights into both.
Penguin
August 2007
On Sale: August 2, 2007
Featuring: Bobby Kahn
ISBN: 1594200505
EAN: 9781594200502
Hardcover
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Meet Bobby Kahn: a smart enough, decent enough man of
middle-of-the-road tastes and weaknesses, and network TV's
boy-wonder programming executive--until, that is, the
morning he gets unceremoniously fired. Frantic to land a new
position before the news breaks, he lunges for the job of
running a sorry family cable dynasty in the cozy town of New
Bedlam, Rhode Island. It won't take Bobby Kahn long to learn
that the length in miles between New York City and New
Bedlam does not begin to do justice to the distance between
the two cities. But that itself only begins to explain the gulf in taste and
instincts between Bobby Kahn and the Kings, one of the more
hilariously dysfunctional families in recent American
fiction. The patriarch, Dom, who made his fortune in car
dealerships and lucked into a cable monopoly in the
industry's dark ages, has ceded control of the three
networks to his three quarreling children: Annie, the
sincere naïf who runs Eureka!, the pretentious arts channel;
Skyler, the cocky social climber who runs BoomerBox, the old
sitcom rerun channel; and the family black sheep, the
cretinous Kenny, who presides over the Comic Book Channel, a
safe house for ill-socialized comic book devotees.
Complicating matters, Bobby learns, is the extent to which
the family is in foul odor in New Bedlam: the Kings' family
secrets, and the enemies the family has made along the way,
are just a few of the obstacles Bobby has to traverse if
he's going to make turning around King Cable, his shot at
redemption, work out.
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