Titoli in Satira

Obituary writer Bud Stanley isn’t really living his best life. He’s fallen into a funk after a divorce. (She left him for another man, who, in fairness, was far more interesting.) He’s not doing his job well. He’s given up on dating. And he’s about to be fired for accidentally publishing his own obituary one mildly drunken night (though technically the company can’t legally fire a dead person). As Bud awaits his fate at work, he does the only logical thing: He goes to the wakes and funerals of total strangers to learn how to live again.

Stoned and porn-addicted surfer Baxter Kent is terrified of women and anxious to make things work with a sex robot. Acid junkie Arden Coover has a useless philosophy degree and a doomed relationship he believes might save him. His younger sister Tess is considering, or resisting, a convenient but loveless marriage to a wealthy, narcissistic novelist. Ryland Richter, an alcoholic insurance executive with too much money and too few scruples, is seeking toxic solace in the arms of a dangerously unhinged subordinate.

In this outrageous and deeply serious satire, two star indoor volleyball players juggle unspoken jealousies in their off-court romance ahead of their rival teams’ first rematch in a year Six is 6′7″, scheming to rejoin the starting lineup, and barely checks her phone. Green is 6′1″...

Bloomsbury presents Why Visit America by Matthew Baker, read by Peter Ganim. Welcome, dear visitor, to a proud and storied nation. When you put down this guidebook, look around you. A nation isn’t land. A nation is people. Equal parts speculative and satirical, the stories in Matthew Baker's...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER An exhilarating novel about one American family and the dark moment that shatters their suburban paradise, from the New York Times bestselling author of Fleishman Is in Trouble A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, Oprah Daily, The New Yorker, Time, The...

Brought to you by Penguin. A work that still poses provocative questions about perception and reality, Flatland is a brilliant parody of Victorian society where all existence is limited to length and breadth - its inhabitants unable even to imagine a third dimension. The amiable narrator, A...

Julian Fellowes, creator of the Emmy-Award winning TV series Downton Abbey, established himself as an irresistible storyteller and a deliciously witty chronicler of modern manners in his first novel, Snobs, a wickedly astute portrait of the intersecting worlds of aristocrats and actors. "The...

'An enthrallingly intricate novel . . . impressive' GUARDIAN 'There's something of F. Scott Fitzgerald about the way Cahill writes about the very rich' DAILY MAIL 'A biting satire of the art world's glamour, pomp and greed . . . lucid and evocative' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'A highbrow whodunnit, and...

1984 liefen die Vorbereitungen für die letzte Kottan-Staffel (Folgen 20-25). Die Drehbücher waren fertig und abgenommen, der Produktionsstab stand fest und auch die Besetzung war bereits engagiert. Doch wenige Tage vor Drehbeginn beschloss der damalige Generalintendant des ORF den Kottan hinterrücks zu meucheln. Nun sind die Zeit und die Öffentlichkeit dafür reif zu erfahren, wie Kottan tatsächlich endet. Unter der Federführung von Jan Zenker hat sich das Kottan-Team wieder zusammen gefunden und die verlorenen Drehbücher in Hörspiele zu verwandeln... Das wahre Ende von Kottan!

"Bist du's, Jürgen?" "Nein, ich bin George Clooney im achten Monat." In seinen neuesten Glossen und Geschichten verhandelt Jürgen von der Lippe - Entertainer, Moderator, Schauspieler, Autor (wir könnten das hier ewig weiterführen) alle wichtigen Themen unserer Zeit: Glück im Spiel, Tod und Trauer, Helene Fischer, Oben ohne, neue Flirttechniken, Märchen heute, Schimpfkunde, gesellschaftliche Strömungen, Paare im Bett, Musik usw.. Live liest der Timing-Titan eine Auswahl seiner Storys - gemeinsam mit dem rasant-charmanten Robert Louis Griesbach und der wunderbar rotzigen Gabi Decker.

“A quick-witted, wry sendup of the advertising industry and corporate culture…A clear-eyed, sympathetic story about complex family ties and the possibility of healing” (The Washington Post). Finbar Dolan is lost and lonely. Except he doesn’t know it. Despite escaping his blue-collar...

Winner of the Man Booker Prize, The Line of Beauty is a classic novel about class, politics and sexuality in Margaret Thatcher's 1980s Britain. There was the soft glare of the flash – twice – three times – a gleaming sense of occasion, the gleam floating in the eye as a blot of shadow, his...

First there was the insomnia. Then there were the support groups that helped him sleep. Then Marla Singer turned up, muscled in on ascending bowel cancer and ruined everything. Then he met Tyler Durden. Then came Fight Club. Fight Club is the psychological story of a man's descent into an...

"Narrator Nancy Wu delivers an outstanding performance of this cheeky satirical novel...Listeners will be entertained by the world building; cast of amusing, eccentric characters; and bizarre charm of the aloof heroine." — AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award Winner Maybe it’s the end of the...

George Babbitt has it all: a successful real estate job, a shiny car, a modern house equipped with all the latest technology, and a devoted wife and three children. However, underneath his public persona, he’s beginning to feel that something is missing, and when a tragic incident occurs Babbitt revolts against his hollow life. Can he overthrow everything he values, or will he remain trapped in the machinery of modern life?

Welcome to Apex City, formerly Bangalore, where everything is decided by the mathematically perfect Bell Curve. With the right image, values, and opinions, you can ascend to the glittering heights of the Twenty Percent—the Virtual elite—and have the world at your feet. Otherwise you risk falling to the precarious Ten Percent, and deportation to the ranks of the Analogs, with no access to electricity, running water, or even humanity. The system has no flaws. Until the elusive "Ten Percent Thief" steals a single jacaranda seed from the Virtual city.

When Shadeys Bank loses another CEO to a scandal, they are desperate to show they’ve reformed. Who better to present their redemption than a country Vicar? Reverend Tom Goodman is ousted from his job as a country Vicar for allowing a homeless family to stay in the church hall. Meanwhile, a major bank is trying to rescue its image after the latest in a long string of financial scandals. It seems like the perfect match, and Goodman is hastily appointed as the bank’s new CEO. 

"The Torrents of Spring" is a novella by Ernest Hemingway, first published in 1926. It serves as a satirical commentary on the literary world and the nature of artistic creation. Set against the backdrop of post-World War I America, the story follows the journey of two main characters, the aspiring writer and the disillusioned author, as they navigate their personal and professional lives.

"It isn't every one who's been a god," said the sunburnt man. "But it's happened to me..." When the Ocean Pioneer sinks in twenty fathoms of water, she takes fifty thousand pounds of pure gold dust down with her. Desperate to strike it rich, a crew of rogue salvagers launches a secret expedition...

Hendrik Groen mag alt sein (83 ¼, um genau zu sein), aber er ist noch lange nicht tot. Zugegeben, seine täglichen Spaziergänge werden kürzer, weil die Beine nicht mehr recht wollen, und er muss regelmäßig zum Arzt. Aber deshalb nur noch Kaffee trinken, die Geranien anstarren und auf das...