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DON'T GET TOO COMFORTABLE
By: David Rakoff
The Indignities of Coach Class, The Torments of Low Thread Count, The Never- Ending Quest for Artisanal Olive Oil, and Other First World Problems
Doubleday
September 2005
240 pages
ISBN: 0385510365
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
David Rakoffβs bestselling collection of autobiographical essays, Fraud, established him as one of todayβs funniest and most insightful writers. Now, in Donβt Get Too Comfortable, Rakoff moves from the personal to the public, journeying into the land of unchecked plenty that is contemporary America. Rarely have greed, vanity, selfishness, and vapidity been so mercilessly and wittily skewered. Somewhere along the line, our healthy self-regard has exploded into obliterating narcissism; our manic getting and spending have now become celebrated as moral virtues. Whether contrasting the elegance of one of the last flights of the supersonic Concorde with the good-times-and-chicken- wings populism of Hooters Air, working as a cabana boy at a South Beach hotel, or traveling to a private island off the coast of Belize to watch a soft-core video shootβwhere he is provided with his very own personal manservantβRakoff takes us on a bitingly funny grand tour of our culture of excess. He comes away from his explorations hilariously horrified. At once a Wildean satire of our ridiculous culture of overconsumption and a plea for a little human decency, Donβt Get Too Comfortable shows that far from being bobos in paradise, weβre in a special circle of gilded-age hell.
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