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John Niven (Guitarist)

    Este autor ofrece una lente aguda y satírica sobre la cultura contemporánea, particularmente la industria musical, basándose en la experiencia personal para exponer sus excesos y ambigüedades morales. Sus narrativas se caracterizan por un estilo crudo y enérgico que profundiza en los aspectos más oscuros de la ambición y la búsqueda del éxito. A través de mordaces comentarios sociales, critica la superficialidad y la naturaleza competitiva de la vida moderna. Su voz distintiva ofrece a los lectores una exploración sin tapujos y convincente de la influencia a menudo corruptora de la ambición.

    Straight White Male
    • Straight White Male

      • 400 páginas
      • 14 horas de lectura

      Kennedy Marr is a novelist from the old school. Irish, acerbic, and a borderline alcoholic and sex-addict, his mantra is drink hard, write hard and try to screw every woman you meet. He's writing film scripts in LA, fucking, drinking and insulting his way through Californian society, but also suffering from writers block and unpaid taxes. Then a solution presents itself - Marr is to be the unlikely recipient of the W. F. Bingham Prize for Outstanding Contribution to Modern Literature, an award worth half a million pounds. But it does not come without a price: he must spend a year teaching at the English university where his ex-wife and estranged daughter now reside. As Kennedy acclimatises to the sleepy campus, inspiring revulsion and worship in equal measure, he's forced to reconsider his precarious lifestyle. Incredible as it may seem, there might actually be a father and a teacher lurking inside this 'preening, narcissistic, priapic, sociopath'. Or is there... Straight White Male is a no-holds-barred look into the mid-life crisis and the contemporary male sexual psyche. It is a brilliant new satire from one of Britain's sharpest writers.

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