American Desert : A Novel (Hardcover)

from jonfaith

This was an uneasy satire, setting it's sights on the topical targets of 2004: Evangelicals, neo-cons and the media. A despondent academic is driving to his suicide when he is unexpectedly decapitated in a traffic accident. He sits up and begins speaking three days later at his funeral. How's thi...

from woosang

This book is light, funny and a no brainer. No attempt to be serious was made in this book.

from jonfaith

This was an uneasy satire, setting it's sights on the topical targets of 2004: Evangelicals, neo-cons and the media. A despondent academic is driving to his suicide when he is unexpectedly decapitated in a traffic accident. He sits up and begins speaking three days later at his funeral. How's thi...

from mbergman

A satire on American religion, media obsession with the freakish, bureaucracy, the military/industrial complex, and, to a lesser extent, academic life. At the beginning of the book, an English professor who has failed to get tenure & is ashamed of a recent extramarital affair, decides to commit s...

from Gary10

Strange tale of a man who is decapitated, but remains very much alive--with all the strange behavior this situation can be expected to induce. Entertaining but not deeply satisfying.