Christopher Buckley Bücher

Die Geschichte handelt von einem ehemaligen Wall-Street-Profi, der als Bruder Ty Mönch wird, um seinem Leben eine neue Richtung zu geben. Im Kloster Kana, das kurz vor dem Bankrott steht, findet er in der Heiligen Schrift überraschende Börsentipps und entdeckt dabei sieben geistige Gesetze, die andere Gurus übertreffen.

Danke, daß Sie hier rauchen ist der spannende Roman eines Insiders. Er zeigt am Beispiel der Tabakindustrie den Zustand einer Gesellschaft als Spielball von Lobbyisten und Fundamentalisten aller Art. Der Ex-Raucher Christopher Buckley schöpft hier alle Facetten von Zynismus und schwarzem Humor aus, den das Sujet hergibt.

In "Florence von Arabien" von Christopher Buckley weigert sich Nazrah al-Bawad, in das fundamentalistische Königreich Wasabien zurückzukehren, und wird bestraft. Ihre Freundin Florence startet einen Fernsehsender, der Frauen in Wasabien befreien soll. Der Roman kombiniert düstere Themen mit witziger Satire und scharfsinnigen Dialogen.

Specters as various as Vallejo, Szymborska, Neruda, Fidel Castro, and Groucho Marx guide and support the elegies in Christopher Buckley's new collection. A god that may or may not be there as well as politics, memory, history, popular culture, philosophy, and a good deal of arm wrestling with chance inform Buckley's on-going debate between faith and doubt, science and religion. Buckley brings his customary sense of irony and slant humor to bear on the deep inquiry into our collective fates in Agnostic.

The narrative intertwines the observations of a keen observer with a poet's emotional depth, capturing the vibrancy of springtime Paris. Through vivid imagery, it explores the nuances of everyday life, from a bus driver to a mechanic, revealing deeper truths about identity and experience. The blend of lyrical urgency and patient storytelling creates a rich tapestry of moments that resonate with both humor and introspection.

With a pajama-clad President Reagan refusing to leave the White House on his successor’s Inauguration Day, Buckley has given this farce of Oval Office politics a nearly perfect beginning. Parodying the familiar form of the White House memoir, Buckley recounts the turbulent years of the Democratic Tucker administration, as told by loyalist Herbert Wadlough. Through this former accountant’s eyes, we see the infighting that plagues the White House, the President’s faltering marriage to a former starlet, and his ongoing crises.

Steaming to Bamboola is a story of the author's time at sea. He tells first- hand about typhoons, cargoes, smuggling, mid-ocean burials, rescues, stowaways, hard places, hard drinking, and hard romance.

In this sharp satire by acclaimed author Tom Wolfe, the U.S. President seeks revenge on the Senate by nominating a beloved TV judge to the Supreme Court. Praised for his humor and political wit, Wolfe delivers a hilarious critique of contemporary politics in this trade paperback edition.

Maintaining the froideur that has won her little public support, First Lady Elizabeth Tyler MacMann needs to find the hottest lawyer in town to defend her in the biggest murder trial in America's history. And that means taking on the services of the fiance she dumped at law school in order to marry the then distinguished war hero who eventually becomes President. Serially divorced, Boyce Baylor is not surprised - he's the only attorney up to the job and he knows it. It's all going swimmingly - he's got it nailed, until his client decides she wants to take the stand and restore her reputation and he has no choice but to acquiesce. Throw in several egos the size of the White House, media-spin like there's no tomorrow, the old boy network, some very underhand business involving the FBI, a pregnancy, a few sex toys and a dose of Viagra and you're some way into this delicious farce - which becomes all the more delicious when you realise how small a leap of the imagination is required to get there.