Search query: plastic, satire

Product: The Plastic Men
Description: Referencing the diverse styles of Kurt Vonnegut, the beat poets , and the concise literary works of the interwar modernists, this book is three short stories written in a poetic form which follow the central character through the present, past and lastly into dream-sleep. A journey to work, a story of love and divorce, the end of all things.

Despite being both humorous and satirical, there is nevertheless a dark side to events which span centuries but which are still immediate and personal. Cultural references clash and combine to draw the reader through the story. Real life events encounter unreal happenings and vice versa, until the final devilish debacle...

Dan Tindall is both a writer and a folk musician, and this is reflected in the concise and flowing nature of the text - stylized but not obscure, designed to draw the reader into the mirror world within the book. At only 35 pages, this is still a fully formed story cycle and worth your attention.

Dan's music also available via Amazon (and all the other major platform) and reflects much of the same themes and ideas.
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Product: Beneath the Plastic
Description: Charlie can pretend to be anything.

To escape his mundane life, he has created multiple lives. In each one he plays a different character. Each character is independent and unrelated to the others, or so he thinks.

When he stumbles upon a life he actually wants – one that is good and meaningful – he discovers that life is not pretend. Some of the people in his lives are very real and extremely dangerous.

For instance, the Brotherhood of Panhandlers, an anarchist group of homeless men that Charlie is a member of. Led by a madman, the Brotherhood is willing to destroy Charlie and everyone close to him to carry out their plans.

Beneath the Plastic is the dark, hilarious, and oddly endearing debut novel by Scott Allison.
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Product: Plastic
Description: #1 Amazon Bestseller
“Very realistic as to the things I do as a plastic surgeon.”
—Dr. Stephen Greenberg, New York plastic surgeon
Dr. Harry Previn, the renowned Beverly Hills plastic surgeon, is secretly called in to operate on the disfigured face of the ravishingly beautiful teen pop star Fay Wray following an assault. Surrounded by image makers who value beauty over all else, he soon fears Fay is in mortal danger. Will he risk everything to save her beauty, her life, or himself?
Plastic is a novel of psychological suspense about a heinous crime that leads to a desperate Hollywood cover up. Welcome to “The Capital of Good Looks,” an ephemeral world of celebrity and beauty crashing at the intersection of Hollywood and rock and roll.
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Product: The Plastic Seed
Description: Two schemes uncoil—and, very quickly, begin to unravel—on the same day in the Australian town of West Glassport…

Jean Hima isn’t happy with the way her life has been going. First, her husband leaves her. Then, she loses her job as a midwife at the local hospital, over the easily-fixed misplacement of a baby or two…

Now, Jean is sure a snooty real estate agent is blocking her efforts to find a rental in a nice part of town.

Given possession of a batch of incriminating photographs, who wouldn’t begin thinking about a little life-restorative blackmail?

Written in three acts and covering a quarter of a century, The Plastic Seed is an environmental thriller that explores the hypocrisy of some aspects of the philosophy of wellness. This novella is part satire of the human potential movement, and sincere testimony to the ability of humans to face facts when given no choice.
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Product: Fake Plastic Love: A Novel
Description: “Prepare yourself for a daring, unsparing takedown of millennial Manhattan, trick by glossy trick.” —Beatriz Williams
We are a bifurcated generation, the Romantics versus the Realists: those who prefer transistor radios to Bose sound systems, scuffed ocean liner trunks to gleaming Rimowa hard shells, fountain pens to BlackBerry keyboards, restored old roadsters to eco-friendly hybrids, the unsmudgeable guarantee of old illusions to present-life ones, tinny and certain to disappoint.
When M. meets Belle at Dartmouth, they become the unlikeliest best friends. Belle is an unapologetic Romantic famous on campus for her bright red accessories and hundred-watt smile, while M. is a tomboyish Realist who insists she’ll always prefer her signet ring to any diamond. Despite their differences, they are drawn together, and after graduation they both move to New York with all the unfounded confidence of twenty-two. M. secures a job at the city’s most prestigious investment bank, and Belle turns her nostalgic aesthetic into one of the first lifestyle blogs, which quickly goes viral. Their future is spread before them, a glittering tableau of vintage cocktails, password-guarded parties, and high-octane ambition. But as they are pulled deeper into their new lives, and into the charming orbit of their Gatsby-esque new friend, Jeremy, style and substance—and dreams and reality—increasingly blur. In this fake plastic world, what do success and love and happiness even look like?
Dazzling, whimsical, and full of yearning, Fake Plastic Love is the transporting story of bright young things tested by the unsentimental realities of post-graduate life. Tipping its hat to F. Scott Fitzgerald, Kimberley Tait’s gorgeous, incisive debut is a portrait of millennial Manhattan—equal parts nostalgia and modernity—that explores the timeless question: You will be a grand total of what you spend your time doing, so what do you want to add up to?
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Product: The Zebra Derby: A Novel
Description: Home from the war, a veteran finds that his battles have only just begun in this zany and irreverent satire from the author of Rally Round the Flag, Boys!
Last seen gallivanting on a college campus in Barefoot Boy with Cheek, Asa Hearthrug traded in his varsity jacket for khaki and fought his way across the Pacific. Now he’s back in his hometown of Whistlestop, Minnesota, eager to share his war stories, but no one wants to listen—they’ve already seen the movies.

Postwar America is a brave new plastic world, and Asa’s girlfriend dreams of settling down in a house made entirely of the synthetic material. To help make Lodestone La Toole’s fantasy a reality, Asa seeks his fortune in vitamin-infused cookie cutters, junkyard fan lamps, airplane fishing trips, and mobile culture emporiums. A failed capitalist, he flirts with communism but decides to rededicate himself to college instead. If only his professors didn’t expect every veteran to be a window-busting, wall-chewing, bloodthirsty maniac, he might actually get some studying done.
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Product: Skin Tight (Mick Stranahan Book 1)
Description: Bestselling author Carl Hiaasen serves up a humorous helping of "taut, fast-paced action...crisp and hot” (The New York Times).
After dispatching a pistol-packing intruder from his home with the help of a stuffed Marlin head, Mick Stranahan can't deny that someone is out to get him. His now-deceased intruder carries no I.D., and as a former Florida state investigator, Stranahan knows there are plenty of potential culprits. His long list of enemies includes an off point hit man, a personal injury lawyer of billboard fame, a notoriously irritating TV journalist, and a fumbling plastic surgeon.
Now, if he wants to keep fishing into his golden years, Stranahan has no choice but to come out of retirement to close this one last case...
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Product: Satiro-Plastic: The Sketchbook of Gary Panter
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Product: Beneath the Plastic
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Product: Men Are Stupid . . . And They Like Big Boobs: A Woman's Guide to Beauty Through Plastic Surgery
Brand: Gallery Books
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Product: The Terrifics Vol. 1: Meet the Terrifics (New Age of Heroes)
Brand: DC Comics
Color: Multicolor
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Product: Plastic Man: Rubber Bandits
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Product: We Cast a Shadow: A Novel
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Product: Better Living Through Plastic Explosives
Brand: Penguin Canada
Color: Black
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Product: Flimsy Little Plastic Miracles: A Novel
Brand: Penguin Books
Color: Multicolor
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