Gross Domestic Product: a novel
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| Rating | : | 4.86 (505 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0615965164 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 302 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-04-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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Every Knee Shall Bow said If America could collectively suck the fat out of itself, with this plan we'd be out of debt in a week!. Gross Domestic Product is by far one of the most enlightening, seriously entertaining, satirically funny, well reasoned books of the year! I can’t remember the last novel I read with such an integrated cast of characters, all living in very different worlds and yet so connected. My favorite is Fanny, a remedial teacher by day, elfin nymph by night. The author has made this book up to date with her full knowledge of M. amanda bouquet said WOAH. This is definitely going down as one of my favorite books of all time. GDP is not only twisted and hilarious, it is one of the most interesting portrayals of the future of American society ever conceived. P.A Corkey has no fear and uses a sick sense of humor along with a fantastic writing style to examine American society and humanity in ways that we can't deny, hit home. The story is completely original and brilliant, the. WOW! skye One word, AMAZING. This book is pure genius and I think that everyone should read it at some point in time.
Career highlights: selling a sitcom idea to Mario Lopez, fake-conducting an orchestra, riding a glistening stallion through a French vineyard, and meeting Ginger Rogers. Corkey has a background in film, having earned an MFA in directing from the American Film Institute. About the Author P.A. 'Gross Domestic Product' is her first novel. . The author teaches at Hofstra University and lives just above the George Washington bridge with her delightful son and excellent dog
Corkey has a background in film, having earned an MFA in directing from the American Film Institute. The author teaches at Hofstra University and lives just above the George Washington bridge with her delightful son and excellent dog. P.A. 'Gross Domestic Product' is her first novel. . Career highlights: selling a sitcom idea to Mario Lopez, fake-conducting an orchestra, riding a g
After tens of thousands of years, humanity has finally gotten hold of the carrot at the end of evolution’s stick. The resulting tumult is experienced through three people, each with a distinct view of the events. So now what?. When education becomes obsolete and her job disappears, she’s forced into the marketplace, selling off her accumulated girth to get by. Franny, an overweight schoolteacher who prefers her online world to reality. Americans seem content to meander in blithe apathy towards an uncertain future. Treyshawn, an intuitively gifted entrepreneur who rises up from the bottom where the obese poor are carrying around more equity than anyone else. The nation is transformed when government teams up with big biotech and pioneers a way to convert human fat into a highly efficient fuel, thus ending our nation’s energy crisis and our obesity epidemic in one fell suck. And Derek, trapped inside the political/media machine. Now, instead of being pitied as a freak, he’s held up as an inspiration. Effort is no longer required to survive. Formerly the world's heaviest man, he is recruited as the government’s poster boy for "Project People Power" and suctioned down to a tenth of his size. Americans grow instantly rich,