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Death by Leisure: A Cautionary Tale
By (author) Chris Ayres
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After a brief and undignified stint as a war correspondent, Chris Ayres is exiled by his newspaper to Hollywood, where he lives in a building called The Leisureplex and sends celebrity tittle-tattle back home. Seduced by the apparently infinite wealth of LA, Ayres embarks on an ill-advised odyssey of self-gratification (in the name of research) and breaks first rule of foreign reporting: he goes native. Before long, he is an SUV-driving narcissist with a flat-screen TV in every room, eight pairs of designer flip-flops, a seven-digit overdraft, and a wife he met on the internet. As always, however, disaster looms. After a fire the size of Luxembourg, a Biblical flood, and the apocalypse of Katrina, Ayres realises he is living on a precipice. Like a gonzo Great Gatsby, Death by Leisure is a savage and hilarious takedown of our times, and a wake-up call to aspiring Leisuretocrats everywhere.
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Publisher | John Murray General Publishing Division
Published date | 14 May 2009
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Format | Paperback
Pages | 320
Dimensions | 198 x 129 x 19mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 210g
ISBN | 978-0-7195-6016-3
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BISAC | travel / essays & travelogues
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