Starbucks Nation
Author | : Chris Ver Wiel |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2011-10-17 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781628721959 |
ISBN-13 | : 1628721952 |
Rating | : 4/5 (952 Downloads) |
Download or read book Starbucks Nation written by Chris Ver Wiel and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-10-17 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is a devastating, hilarious satire of coffee-swilling, celebrity-obsessed Southern California pop culture by one of the freshest new voices in fiction. Morgan Beale has a celebutante, masochist wife and a home being renovated. He begins adapting the latest bestseller, The Chihuahua in the Blue Prada Bag, from a local hotel room. Dodging the paparazzi one morning on his way to Starbucks, he discovers the surreal otherworld of Starbucks Nation, a film set littered with characters from Beale’s life and the novel he’s adapting, including a talking Chihuahua and an elite commando unit of ethnic cookie-making elves. Mercilessly lampooning our fascination with reality television, celebrity blunders, B movies, and mindless infotainment, Starbucks Nation brilliantly showcases the absurdities of modern society.