Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff: A Novel

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&“An incredibly interesting work.&” —Jane Smiley &“A straight up masterwork.&” —Sarah Silverman &“Blisteringly funny.&” —Corey Seymour &“A transcendent apocalyptic satire.&” —Michael Silverblatt &“Crackling with life.&” —Paul Theroux &“Great fun.&” —Salman Rushdie &“A provocative debut.&” —Kirkus Reviews From legendary actor and activist Sean Penn comes a scorching, &“charmingly weird&” (Booklist, starred review) 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 United States intelligence that targets the elderly, the infirm, and others who drain 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 startling images and painted &“with a broadly satirical, Vonnegut-ian brush&” (Kirkus Reviews), Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff is one of the year's most controversial and talked about literary works.
Copyright:
2018

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Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
176 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781501189067
Related ISBNs:
9781501189050, 9781501189050
Publisher:
Atria Books
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Copyrighted By:
Atria Books
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
Literature and Fiction, Humor
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Bookshare Staff
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