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Processed Cheese - Stephen Wright - 2020
A Novel
By: Stephen Wright
Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
Length: 13 hrs and 48 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 01-21-20
Language: English
Genre: Fiction, Humor
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
Format: mp3 64/48 stereo
Publisher's Summary
From a writer hailed as "astonishing" (Toni Morrison), the savagely funny story of a couple who unexpectedly come into some money in an America deranged by Mammon
A bag of money drops out of the sky, literally, into the path of a cash-starved citizen named Graveyard. He carries it home to his wife, Ambience, and they embark on the adventure of their lives, finally able to have everything they've always deserved: cars, guns, games, jewels, clothes - and of course sex, travel, and time with friends and family. There is no limit except their imagination and the hours in the day, and even those seem to be subject to their control.
Of course, the owner of the bag is searching for it, and will do whatever is necessary to get it back. And of course, these new riches change everything - and nothing at all.
Stephen Wright has woven out of the language, images, and stories of our wealth-obsessed culture a novel of once-in-a-generation vitality and inventiveness. Darkly hilarious, Processed Cheese is both satire and serious as death. It's a road novel, a family story, and a last-girl-standing thriller. With the clarity of a Swift or a Melville, Wright has created a funhouse-mirror drama that puts all the chips on the table, every bullet in the clip, down to the last breathtaking moment.
©2020 Stephen Wright (P)2020 Hachette Audio
Critic Reviews
"Processed Cheese does for consumerism what Catch-22 did for war." (Stephen King, best-selling author of IT and The Shining)
"In novel after unsparing novel - each one gorgeous, too, and full of awe - Stephen Wright has emerged as a kind of modern-day Socrates hectoring a complacent citizenry to have a good hard look at its collective delusions. With Processed Cheese, he's written a novel so outrageous and diagnostic of our current ills, it will prove much stronger than hemlock. If you hope to keep up your venality, America, your cruelties, and your death wish, better string this court jester up by his toes." (Joshua Ferris, author of The Dinner Party)
"Why is Stephen Wright so funny and what can I do to be as funny as him? As perceptive? As inventive? As smart? Not much, I guess. So I'll just sit here reading Processed Cheese over and over while gnashing my teeth." (Gary Shteyngart, author of The Russian Debutante's Handbook and Super Sad True Love Story)
"Processed Cheese is a novel of such thrilling extravagance that I swear it spiked my glucose levels. Stephen Wright has given us a fable about America's infatuation with wealth, a limit-test on the question of what, exactly, money can buy. Hilarious, outlandish, deeply troubling, and completely debauched, this book is basically perfect for the current moment." (Nathan Hill, author of The Nix)
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