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This is not the future you were promised. You know the rules. If you still want to play the game of American life, then you had better learn to lie. Kneel before false gods. Pretend to care about the ruling class and their illusions. Keep your head down. Pray that no one sees you. But what if someone had forgotten how to lie, and had written a book that destroyed their hopes of a literary career? Look no further: This is Kobek's comic novel ab...

Brilliantly funny ... the best satire of our contemporary nightmare that you will ever see, and very possibly the last' Alan MooreIt's 2019 and America is ruled over by a billionaire reality TV star. Its media is owned by a transnational class of the shameless and the depraved. And its people have been silently robbed of their wealth, their dignity and their democracy. In this brave new world, going to see a superhero movie counts as activism,...

Adeline è una quarantacinquenne semifamosa per aver pubblicato un fumetto di successo negli anni Novanta. Vive a San Francisco. Invitata a parlare in un'università, finisce sotto attacco sui social network per aver «commesso l'unico errore imperdonabile del ventunesimo secolo», ossia non rendersi conto che qualcuno la riprendeva mentre esprimeva quello che pensava. Bisogna tenere conto che Adelina (1) è una donna in una cultura che odia le don...

A hilarious and acerbic satire of the contemporary American situation, taking its cues from big superhero films to allegorise #MeToo and target the Trump administration. Kobek is the author of "ATTA" and "I Hate The Internet".

A brilliant re-creation of a disappeared New York of cheap rents, club kids and Bret Easton Ellis. . . . You can't stop time's passage, this absorbing novel reminds us. You can only find someone to love to help you survive it." -Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal"Have you been pining for tales of drug-fueled big-city debauchery set in the pre-digital era, when MTV was king, people still used landlines and hookups were orchestrated on dance flo...

Baby and Adeline cling to each other for dear life in the cool but hedonistic late-eighties and early-nineties New York of AIDS, Warhol, Basquiat, club kids and gentrification. Takes the story of the characters from "I Hate The Internet" back to their youth.

Taking the Ol' Dirty Bastard beyond the headlines, Jarett Kobek explores the consequences of the wild tales that provided years of tabloid fare, suggesting that beneath the shock value was a very serious story ignored by almost everyone. A Black man in America refused to acknowledge social control and was crushed by the American criminal justice system. Is it possible that by recording his shameless message, the Ol' Dirty Bastard doomed himsel...

Der neue Roman vom Autor des internationalen Überraschungserfolgs »Ich hasse dieses Internet« New York City, 1986: Als die wohlhabende Kunststudentin Adeline in einem besetzten Haus im East Village auf Baby trifft, der mit nicht mehr als ein paar Dollar in der großen Stadt gestrandet ist, nimmt sie ihn bei sich auf. Sie zeigt ihm die Bars, die Drinks, die Kunst, das Leben. Nächtelang ziehen die beiden durch die Clubs von Downtown Manhattan, ...

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Das Kultbuch aus den USA über die schöne neue Netzwelt Mit rasender Energie wütet Jarett Kobek in seinem Debütroman »Ich hasse dieses Internet« gegen das Internet. In San Francisco, Kalifornien, virbrieren die Cafés von Millionen von Tweets, die Gentrifizierung jagt die Loser aus der Stadt, und eine Gruppe von Freunden kollidiert hart mit der digitalen Gegenwart. Adeline hat einen Shitstorm am Hals, und Ellen findet sich nackt im Netz wieder....

Aligning criminal histories with transcribed extracts from leaked celebrity home video, If You Won't Read Then Why Should I Write? documents the bathetic moments beyond a publicist's protective shield, while offering a sobering appraisal of American social justice.

What if you told the truth and the whole world heard you? Would you expect to be believed? What if you lived in a country swamped with Internet outrage? What if you were a woman living in a society that hated women? In this, his first full-length novel, Jarett Kobek answers the questions of our moment: Why do we live with rank misery seeping from the world's cellphones and computers? Why do we applaud the enrichment of tech CEOs at the expense...

Now in paperback, this novel is a satire of our internet age. In the 1990s, Adeline drew a successful comic book series that made her kind-of famous. In 2013, she aired some unfashionable opinions, and the reaction of the internet was to send her abusive messages. 'This book has soul as well as nerve...' "New York Times

A disorienting fictionalized portrayal of 9/11 mastermind Mohamed Atta and the meaning of madness.

A brilliant re-creation of a disappeared New York of cheap rents, club kids and Bret Easton Ellis. . . . You can't stop time's passage, this absorbing novel reminds us. You can only find someone to love to help you survive it." -Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal"Have you been pining for tales of drug-fueled big-city debauchery set in the pre-digital era, when MTV was king, people still used landlines and hookups were orchestrated on dance flo...

Dit is het verhaal van Adeline. Ze schrijft stripboeken en woont in San Francisco. Haar stad is overgenomen door brutale kapitalisten en technologische startups. Zij en haar vrienden lijken nu nutteloos te zijn geworden in deze nieuwe wereld waarin alles draait om winst. Dit is ook het verhaal van Ellen. Haar leven is verpest nadat haar ex naaktfoto's van haar over het internet verspreid heeft. Maar vooral is 'Ik haat het internet' een grensve...