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Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff: A Novel Gebundene Ausgabe – 27. März 2018
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From legendary actor and activist Sean Penn comes a scorching, darkly funny novel about Bob Honey—a modern American man, entrepreneur, and part-time assassin.
Bob Honey has a hard time connecting with other people, especially since his divorce. He’s tired of being marketed to every moment, sick of a world where even an orgasm isn’t real until it is turned into a tweet. A paragon of old-fashioned American entrepreneurship, Bob sells septic tanks to Jehovah’s Witnesses and arranges pyrotechnic displays for foreign dictators. He’s also a contract killer for an off-the-books program run by a branch of US intelligence that targets the elderly, the infirm, and others who drain this consumption-driven society of its resources.
When a nosy journalist starts asking questions, Bob can’t decide if it’s a chance to form some sort of new friendship or the beginning of the end for him. With treason on everyone’s lips, terrorism in everyone’s sights, and American political life sinking to ever-lower standards, Bob decides it’s time to make a change—if he doesn’t get killed by his mysterious controllers or exposed in the rapacious media first.
A thunderbolt of provocative words and startling images, Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff marks the fiction debut of one of America’s most acclaimed artists.
- Seitenzahl der Print-Ausgabe176 Seiten
- SpracheEnglisch
- HerausgeberAtria Books
- Erscheinungstermin27. März 2018
- Abmessungen13.97 x 2.03 x 21.27 cm
- ISBN-101501189042
- ISBN-13978-1501189043
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“Penn paints with a broadly satirical, Vonnegut-ian brush. . . . he gives nods (by way of sly footnotes) to the likes of David Foster Wallace and Thomas Pynchon. . . . It’s good fun [and] a provocative debut.” ― Kirkus Reviews
“It seems wrong to say that so dystopian a novel is great fun to read, but it’s true. I suspect that Thomas Pynchon and Hunter S. Thompson would love this book." -- Salman Rushdie
“Before I started reading, I glanced over the table of contents. The first chapter is called ‘Seeking Homeostasis in Inherent Hypocrisy.’ I rolled my eyes and said aloud to no one, “fuuuck you.” Then, I read it, and it turns out it’s a goddamned novel for the ages. A straight-up masterwork, more relevant to this very moment than anything I’ve seen. Tom Robbins, Mark Twain, E.E. Cummings and Billy Bragg all just came in Chuck Bukowski’s pants. Whether it’s your cuppa tea is something I cannot know. But sweet Jesus it was mine.” -- Sarah Silverman
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Bob Honey has a hard time connecting with other people, especially since his divorce. He’s tired of being marketed to every moment, sick of a world where even an orgasm isn’t real until it is turned into a tweet. A paragon of old-fashioned American entrepreneurship, Bob sells septic tanks to Jehovah’s Witnesses and arranges pyrotechnic displays for foreign dictators. He’s also a contract killer for an off-the-books program run by a branch of US intelligence that targets the elderly, the infirm, and others who drain this consumption-driven society of its resources.
When a nosy journalist starts asking questions, Bob can’t decide if it’s a chance to form some sort of new friendship or the beginning of the end for him. With treason on everyone’s lips, terrorism in everyone’s sights, and American political life sinking to ever-lower standards, Bob decides it’s time to make a change―if he doesn’t get killed by his mysterious controllers or exposed in the rapacious media first.
A thunderbolt of provocative words and startling images, Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff marks the fiction debut of one of America’s most acclaimed artists.
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Leseprobe. Abdruck erfolgt mit freundlicher Genehmigung der Rechteinhaber. Alle Rechte vorbehalten.
PRELUDE
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SHERIFF’S BLOTTER – WOODVIEW COUNTY, CALIFORNIA
SEPTEMBER 15, 2001
“911 . . . What’s your emergency?”
“Yes. My name is Helen Mayo. I live at 1531 Sweet Dog Lane. I don’t know if I have an emergency, but I do have a new neighbor and I’m sorry if I just think he’s [loud dog barking renders caller unintelligible]—Nicky, please!—I’m sorry that’s just my little doggy—if I just think he’s behaving strangely, and perhaps, the police would like to take a look, or maybe go and . . . you know, sniff it out. Sniff, chat, whatever it is that you do.” [more dog barking]
“It’s a little difficult to hear you, ma’am. Can you describe the strange behavior, please?”
“Well, it seems he’s wrapping some kind of insulated wire around his house.”
“Insulated wire, ma’am?”
“Yes, or maybe a clothesline. He’s spooling it into his toolshed. I don’t know his exact street number, but it’s just two doors from me and across the street and I can see him from my kitchen window and, well . . . I don’t know. I just think the police should be involved.”
“Okay, ma’am. Thank you for your call. We’ll go ahead and notify patrol.”
“Thank you. Bye bye. [renewed loud dog barking] Who’s a good boy-ee?”
SHERIFF’S BLOTTER – WOODVIEW COUNTY, CALIFORNIA
DECEMBER 7, 2003
Numerous residents of Upper Sweet Dog Lane reporting overgrowth of a neighbor’s lawn. A 30-day notice has been posted.
SHERIFF’S BLOTTER – WOODVIEW COUNTY, CALIFORNIA
DECEMBER 23, 2003
Resident at 1528 Sweet Dog Lane was cited for illegal posting of placard admonishing, “International Airports Boast Morbid Mannequins at Duty Free.”
At 2200 hrs., a patrol car, dispatched to the address, served the citation to the location. Resident was either not home or nonresponsive to officers. The citation was left at resident’s door.
SHERIFF’S BLOTTER – WOODVIEW COUNTY, CALIFORNIA
DECEMBER 24, 2003
At 0634 hrs., Woodview County Sheriff’s office was contacted by cited resident.
“Woodview Sheriff’s Office.”
“Yes, ma’am. I am resident 1528 Sweet Dog Lane and in receipt of a citation for illegal posting. To whom it may concern, it wasn’t my sign.”
(Without sufficient evidence to the contrary, citation was rescinded.)
SHERIFF’S BLOTTER – WOODVIEW COUNTY, CALIFORNIA
DECEMBER 29, 2003
Neighbors complain of excessive lawn mower noise—0300 hrs. When patrol arrived at scene, all was quiet. Scent of fresh cut grass permeating the air.
SHERIFF’S BLOTTER – WOODVIEW COUNTY, CALIFORNIA
DECEMBER 1, 2004
“911. What’s your emergency?”
“Yes, this is Helen Mayo on Sweet Dog Lane.”
“Yes, Ms. Mayo. What’s your emergency?”
“Well, I just don’t know. But that neighbor, I’ve called you about him before. He’s cut his hair in a rather disturbing way.”
“He’s cut his hair, Ms. Mayo?”
“Yes, but I wouldn’t bother you with a fashion, you know.”
“No, I’m sure you wouldn’t, ma’am. But you have to help me understand your concern.”
“Well, this hairdo of his, it’s something like a Nazi, or a woodshop teacher. And as you know, I’m not the only one on this street who has registered my concerns about this man. Despite numerous complaints or reports or what have you, I’m just baffled that you all have never actually engaged this gentleman. That you people haven’t made any official law enforcement contacts. Forgive me if I . . . that with all his strange behavior and haircuts and all that . . . you know what I mean . . . I’m not saying he looks Arab, mind you. He’s a white man. Anyone could see that, but I still think that the police should, well, you know . . . yes, sniff him out, just sniff that man out!”
Station One
SEEKING HOMEOSTASIS IN INHERENT HYPOCRISY
SUMMER 2016
Cactus Fields, a Low-Cost Home for Assisted Senior Living, looms like a large khaki-colored brick isolated against a backdrop of distant ambient light. Its draped windows and solitary silhouette sit in a seemingly endless desert tableau. Here it seems that the desert itself has been deserted.
And there they are, the brand-less beasts of yesteryear. Moist, sagging eyes, illuminated by the rarefied strobe of a passing car on the interstate. Behind the windows of the beige stucco building that sits behind a dilapidated, sporadically visited parking lot where brown weeds burst through fissures in the pavement, eight senior residents have been awakened by the power cut. They huddle side by side in plastic chairs. Portraiture of sagging faces falling in and out of indelicate light and shadow. Theirs, a blotchy batch of colorless dermal masks. That last life spark extracted from their oblivion, a reckoning of their uselessness in a world where branding is being. Bound by brutal boredom. Then . . . mercy comes.
POP! POP! POP!
A chosen three down.
The elderly are being executed by a talented blunt force. Gloved hands reconnect wires in a power box out back. Eight now reduced to five whose day will come. A dull white Pontiac ignites its engine, rolls over the fissures of weed onto the interstate and under its driver’s breath, “It wasn’t me.”
Produktinformation
- Herausgeber : Atria Books; 1. Edition (27. März 2018)
- Sprache : Englisch
- Gebundene Ausgabe : 176 Seiten
- ISBN-10 : 1501189042
- ISBN-13 : 978-1501189043
- Abmessungen : 13.97 x 2.03 x 21.27 cm
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 1,777,865 in Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Bücher)
- Nr. 465 in Absurde Literatur
- Nr. 3,966 in Satire (Bücher)
- Nr. 24,803 in Humoristisch
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What the...? Dear Sean Penn, please stick to acting and/or voice-acting, which you did very well here. But please stop writing, this was a complete and utterly undecipherable mess! Political activism, et cetera, I get it. But this was painful.
Frances McDormand, I love you! Please read me your shopping list!
Recommended: to nobody!
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I understand the hostility, the anger, the confusion. From those who have read it, gave it a good going over- and not those who've lynched it, to fit in and be part of a mindless swarm of insecure threatened ignorant individuals.
This is pure literature. Not your usual SELL THE NAME TO INDUCE THE FAME GAME GUISE TO CONTINUE SELLING AN IDENTITY BORN FOR AUDIENCES TO BLAME.
This is an artist, vocalising himself greater than the media he works in can offer, being a quagmire of image and selling tickets- what with being entrenched in the Industry. Artistic individuality lost.
Now, restored.
Sean Penn is experimenting with prose, linear, topics in a fashion you'd both expect and then not so expect. Aside from your own political opinion or greater still on the author in question you'll go in biased and come out still biased.
This book transcends the norm of the type of media and attention these forms of cultish, underground styled, aesthetic and transgressive novels ever get- its garnering as such by his name and status, yes, but beautifully and in a play of using the medium he so has become disenchanted with and at loose ends with, its to his and specifically to the books (intent/meaning/physical representation's) advantage.
Pushing the norm. Breaking the social status quo and the rules put by, breaking out, ushering in criticism and ignorance and making his point supple and primed.
Utterly ambitious, ambiguous, hilarious. A uniquely perverse satirical transgressive novel of multiple facets of intrigue and commentary.
The prose is lyrical, unpredictable, hyperbolically attuned to its style and cadence; a raw all consuming Ballardian fusion of rhetoric, and Burroughsian wordsmithery.
Penn has written a book of the ages, targeting anything and everything we all face in a digital age- BS movements, empty apathetic drollery of a mass mind brewed and fermented in false agenda and hypocrisy and sycophantic ideologies.
Its layered, its really hysterical. Its bold. Bleakly brutal. Its a delightful inspirational read on how to convey politics, social retardation at its zenith of ignorance.
I adored this book. Cannot wait to read more from Penn.
My obvious qualms with Sean Penn as a person rear to an ugly head in this book. He has a white savior complex in real life, and it is definitely apparent in this. Each interaction with a character who isn't white reeks of racism. He attempts to pass it off as satire, but it is impossible to read it that way because of how he acts in real life. There's no separating the art from the artist.
I think what is the worst about this is his satire is an "attempt" at criticizing men like him without taking any responsibility for his own actions. Sorry, Sean -- it doesn't work that way. You, too, are a rich, cis, white male contributing to the oppressive atmosphere of America.
Then... oh my... there's his OUTRIGHT critique of the #metoo movement and his objectification of women within the book. It's disgusting. Don't trust anyone who glorifies Louis CK over traumatized victims of sexual assault (a literal line in a half-assed attempt at a poem at the end of the book).
Don't read this misogynist piece of junk. Save your money. I beg of you.
Don't even read it for gags. It's truly not worth it.