Short description
An incisive fictional portrait of a consumer society gone mad looks behind the scenes of sellevision, a shop-at-home network, where the slick facades of the popular hosts slowly crumble as one celebrity becomes an addict and another exposes himself on air. A first novel. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.
Long description
Darkly funny and gleefully mean-spirited, Sellevision explores greed, obsession and third tier celebrity, in the world of a fictional home shopping network. Welcome to the troubled world of Sellevision, America’ s premier retail broadcasting network. When Max Andrews, the much-loved and handsome (lonely and gay) host of “ Slumber Sunday Sundown” accidentally exposes himself in front of twenty million kids and their parents during a “ Toys for Tots” segment, Sellevision faces its first big scandal. As Max fails to find a job in television, another host, the popular and perky Peggy Jean Smythe is receiving sinister emails about her appearance from a stalker. Popping pills and drinking heavily, she fails to notice that her husband is spending a lot of time with the very young babysitter who lives next door. Then there’ s Leigh, whose affair with Sellevision boss Howard Toast is going nowhere, until she exposes him on air; and Bebe, Sellevision’ s star host, who finds Mr. Right through the Internet--if she can just stop her shopping addiction from taking over.
Review
Savvy, very entertaining. Is there a funnier combination than fast-moving soap-opera and tawdry comedy? Underneath all the lunacy lies a grim truth: the thin line separating grotesque satire and everyday reality has been erased and will never exist again. --Brett Easton Ellis An absolute howl ...wicked fun. -- New York Daily News One of the hoots of this fall. -- People Acidic entertainment. -- Entertainment Weekly