Basket of Deplorables
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| Rating | : | 4.29 (979 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B06ZYBD2NP |
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| Number of Pages | : | 247 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-02-18 |
| Language | : | English |
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Cloggie Downunder said clever and topical. Basket of Deplorables is a collection of five loosely connected short stories by American author, Tom Rachman.Basket of Deplorables: Publisher Roger Peet is renowned for his election night parties, and the usual collection of guests is gathered as the results for Clinton vs Trump roll in. It’s a little different this year, though, because his wife Georgina has now been blind for a year after an accident. Perhaps because of that, or perhaps it would have dawned on her anyway, but she finds these party guests incredibly preten
Basket of Deplorables takes an incisive and satirical look at the United States in the era of Trump data breaches, liberal self-righteousness, red-hat rancor, Starbucks macchiatos, Ultimate Fighting factories, and Internet sinkholes. In Basket of Deplorables, Rachman has created an urgent and deeply satisfying work that will continue to cement his place among the great literary stylists and cultural observers of our time.. Reviews for his second novel, The Rise and Fall of Great Powers, were no less rapturous, with the New York Times calling it "ingenious". Critics hailed Tom Rachman's smash debut and New York Times best seller, The Imperfectionists, as "spectacular" (New York Times), "superb" (The Plain Dealer), and "magnificent" (Seattle Post-Intelligencer). Now, in the shadows of a seismic shift in American politics, comes his timely and hilarious new work. Written for Audible and featuring a shifting array of disparate voices, the five intricately linked stories take listeners from an Election Night party in Manhattan to a funeral populated by fake mourners in Lansing, Michigan, to an online date in an era when every email platform in the world has been hacked