Sellevision: A Novel
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.14 (626 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0312430078 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-08-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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"This was a great read by a great and funny author." according to Lillian Newcomb. I love this author. So far I have read three of his books and most of them are pretty much about his own life. Except this one. This is an extremely funny glance behind the curtain of the sales channels and how phony most of the people are. Not real life but it really makes you think about his book if you flip to one of the HSN or QVC or Evine channels. It is not about those channels but a channel out of his wonderful mind. I intend to next buy his book " Running with Scissors" which is an autobiography. He keeps yo. mollie marten said his books are like reality television but the difference is you'll never lose. I'm totally addicted to Augusten Burroughs!!! All his books are off the wall, keeps me tuned inhis books are like reality television but the difference is you'll never lose interest! Can't get over the s*** that goes on in his head. I envy the person that he is, he says what's on his mind, no bull s***.. "My Name is Jean, And I am a Home Shopaholic" Jean Baldridge Yates Well, blow me down. What a perfectly hilarious depiction of a fictitious home shopping network. I laughedI criedand for a change, I was busy reading so I didn't buy anything from those tv vultures that masquerade as my best friends.It was quite shocking and a bit more down and dirty that the recipe book you bought last month from channel 33 featuring some old bat's rice krispies cookie recipe, but it was all in fun. Can you be kind hearted and nasty at the same time? All's well that ends well, as Shakespeare said. T
Meanwhile, one of her cohosts, Max Andrews, has been fired for accidentally exposing himself during a children's special, and learns just how undesirable a commodity a penis-baring ex-Sellevision host can be on the job market. Light and funny, with a bitter aftertaste, the action of Sellevision takes place behind the scenes (and on the set) of a successful television shopping network, where a feminine role model, Peggy Jean Smythe, the married, Christian mother of three, begins receiving suspicious e-mail from a viewer who insists that Peggy's hairy earlobe is obscuring her present
Popping pills and drinking heavily, she fails to notice that her husband is spending a lot of time with the young babysitter who lives next door. A blistering satire of our overcharged, scandal-obsessed world, Sellevision is "an absolute howl wicked fun" (New York Daily News).. The hilarious first novel by the #1 bestselling author of Running with Scissors, Dry, A Wolf at the Table, and You Better Not Cry, Sellevision is Augusten Burrough's darkly funny and vastly entertaining skewering of a very troubled home-shopping channel.Welcome to the world of Sellevision, America's premier retail broadcasting network. Then there's Leigh, whose affair with married Sellevision boss Howard Toast is going nowhere until she announces their relationship on air. When Max Andrews, the much loved and handsome (that is, lonely and gay) host of a "Toys for Tots" segment, accidentally exposes himself in front of millions of kids, Sellevision faces its first big scandal. As Max struggles to find a new job in television, the popular and perky host Peggy Jean Smythe is receiving sinister emails from a stalker