On the Edge of Reason
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780814907474 (0814907474)
Publish date: January 28th 1976
Publisher: Vanguard Press
Pages no: 182
Edition language: English
Pretty good narration by an upper-class lawyer in 1920's Croatia who decides he's sick of all the bullshit of socializing, kissing ass, and wearing the thin façade of amiability which his profession and social life demand of him. At a staid formal dinner, he calls the most powerful man in town a rep...
A satire or two has come out in recent years that didn't make much sense at all to me, and On the Edge is a better book than other satires I've read recently. This guy has the nerve to say something he's really thinking: he rightly criticizes a man who is bragging about having shot 4 would-be burgl...
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