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The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up
Jacob M. Appel
Cargo Publishing
November 2012
On Sale: October 25, 2012
300 pages
ISBN: 1908885114
EAN: 9781908885111
Kindle: B009YLLWOY
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"A darkly comic satire, full of insight into American
culture."-Stephen Fry, judge of the 2012 Dundee
International Book Prize. “Engaging, funny, ingenious, even
charming.”Philip Pullman, judge of the 2012 Dundee
International Book Prize. Arnold Brinkman is a shy and
retiring botanist; he loves his plants more than his
country. But when his refusal to stand for the national
anthem at a baseball game causes a major media incident, he
is thrown into a world of pushy patriots, preachers and
press. And it's not going to get any easier when he refuses
to apologise... A hilarious bullet into the heart of modern America, The Man
Who Wouldn't Stand Up mixes the literary sensibilities of
Jonathan Franzen with the raucous satire of DBC Pierre. It's
the debut novel of one of the most acclaimed and
controversial authors to emerge from the USA in years; Jacob
M. Appel adds the £10,000 Dundee International Book Prize to
a list of prizes that includes the Faulkner-Wisdom Prize for
Short Stories and The Boston Review Prize.
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