slab-rat

Literature & Fiction

Ted Heller

Contemporary

ABACUS +

Slab Rat

Zachary Arlen Post is a fraud. A lazy but ambitious magazine editor who toils in one of New York's skyscrapers, or 'slabs', Zachary is struggling to work his way up the masthead of It, the shallow, glossy magazine at which he's an associate editor. But his ascent has stalled: he can't seem to get promoted. So when determined new boy Mark Larkin begins to get himself noticed and promoted, Zachary realises that something must be done. Mark must be destroyed . . .'Heller's satire on American magazine journalism is written to the same high standard as his father's first novel, Catch-22 . . . this is the funniest and sharpest novel about journalism since Jay Mclnerney's Bright Lights, Big City Daily Telegraph)

Abacus Books

In a dazzling tapestry of invented voices-of family, friends, employees, rivals-the meteoric trajectories of the lives and careers of Vic Fountain and Ziggy Bliss are brilliantly captured in this remarkable comic oral history. Before they meet, Sigmund Blissman and Victor Fontana were going nowhere fast. One a comedian, the other a band singer, they struggle to establish themselves as performers. And one night, as both of them fail miserably in mid-performance, the now-named Ziggy Bliss appears unexpectedly onstage with Vic Fountain, and comedy history is born. Soon they are the undisputed funniest men in America; their performance is described as "table tennis on a comet." But their professional success doesn't spill over into their personal lives. The two men fight, bickering with their managers, their wives, their children, and their mistresses, each driving himself away from the one person most responsible for his success: the other. FUNNYMEN is a tour de force: a nostalgic, penetrating look at the unlikely relationship between two entertainers whose combined success is far greater than anything they could have achieved on their own.

Funnymen

In a dazzling tapestry of invented voices-of family, friends, employees, rivals-the meteoric trajectories of the lives and careers of Vic Fountain and Ziggy Bliss are brilliantly captured in this remarkable comic oral history. Before they meet, Sigmund Blissman and Victor Fontana were going nowhere fast. One a comedian, the other a band singer, they struggle to establish themselves as performers. And one night, as both of them fail miserably in mid-performance, the now-named Ziggy Bliss appears unexpectedly onstage with Vic Fountain, and comedy history is born. Soon they are the undisputed funniest men in America; their performance is described as "table tennis on a comet." But their professional success doesn't spill over into their personal lives. The two men fight, bickering with their managers, their wives, their children, and their mistresses, each driving himself away from the one person most responsible for his success: the other.

Scribner Book Company

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slab-rat

Slab Rat

Funnymen

Funnymen

Slab Rat

Funnymen