- Paperback: 229 pages
- Publisher: Picador; Revised edition edition (Jun 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0312422288
- ISBN-13: 978-0312422288
- Product Dimensions: 21 x 14.2 x 1.7 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 940,030 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"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"
"An absolute howl ...wicked fun." --"New York Daily News"
"One of the hoots of this fall." --"People"
"Acidic entertainment." --"Entertainment Weekly"
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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.
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.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I enjoyed reading 'Running with Scissors', 'Dry' and 'Magical Thinking' and was pleased to find out that Augusten Burroughs had written another book. I was so disappointed. It was very badly written and not very funny or interesting. I've since found out that he wrote this book in a week, and it shows.
If I'd read this book first I would never have gone on to read any of his others.
If you have read Sellevision and none of his other books, I urge you to try them and not be put off by this awful book.
If I'd read this book first I would never have gone on to read any of his others.
If you have read Sellevision and none of his other books, I urge you to try them and not be put off by this awful book.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I discovered Augusten Burroughs after reading 'Running with Scissors' which was great, if a little disturbing.
'Dry' and 'Magical Thinking' were also excellent and really funny so I was pleased to find out he'd written another book- 'Sellevision'- at the start of his writing career.
Unfortunately 'Sellevision' was pretty dreadful. It was badly written, (he has improved tenfold in his writing skills since then), the story was full of cliches and the characters dull and two-dimensional.
'Dry' and 'Magical Thinking' were also excellent and really funny so I was pleased to find out he'd written another book- 'Sellevision'- at the start of his writing career.
Unfortunately 'Sellevision' was pretty dreadful. It was badly written, (he has improved tenfold in his writing skills since then), the story was full of cliches and the characters dull and two-dimensional.
I really admire Augusten Burroughs and have enjoyed three of his books immensely. He is simply more interesting when writing about himself. It would be interesting to read 'Sellevision' if he wrote it again now. It would be much more daring, funny and, no doubt, better written.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
What a slick, dark and very, very funny book! It's set in the superficial world of television retailing, and features some awful characters - in fact, most of the characters are pretty horrible. This doesn't detract from the book in any way - you're not meant to empathise with them! All sorts of dreadful things happen, with great comic effect. This is the first book I've read in a long time that's actually made me laugh aloud. I'll definitely look up Burroughs' other novels.
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laugh out loud
I was lent this book by a friend and to say it takes a lot for me to laugh out loud when i'm reading something - this took the biscuit on it. Read more
Published 9 months ago by Josey Wales
Kept me smiling
Sellevision is the first of Augusten Burroughs books I have read and I'll be looking out a few more after this. Read more
Published 17 months ago by Taz
If you want belly-laughs
The seedy world of TV advertising, jingles and compulsive shoppers, small-time front people for a TV channel deluded into thinking that they have celebrity status and the normal... Read more
Published 17 months ago by Mr. D. P. Jay
Very Funny
As his first novel it's a very funny,scathing look at the world of t.v. and the people that work in it. A great beach book. You won't want to put it down.
Published on 29 July 2009 by J. Williams
made me laugh out loud on the tube!
I've read all his books but this is laugh out loud funny and I thoroughly recommend it. You shouldn't compare it to his others which are autobiographical whereas this is pure... Read more
Published on 5 Jun 2009 by M. Martin
People you hate on the tube
You know when you are on the tube/bus/train/unicycle and you see someone reading a book and then out of the blue they laugh uproariously and look around to see if you noticed and... Read more
Published on 4 Jun 2009 by A. J. Weston
a bit disappointing
After reading Running with Scissors and Dry, I really had high hopes for Burroughs' novel, Sellevision. Read more
Published on 1 Jan 2008 by Kendra
Highly entertaining
Burroughs' Sellevision is a tale about a gay TV presenter who inadvertently exposes himself on TV. The story follows the after effects of the event. Read more
Published on 8 Sep 2007 by Benjamin
totally original
Augusten Burroughs is one of those authors I accidentally discovered because his book was in the sale. Read more
Published on 29 July 2005 by Ms. S. R. Morgan
Excellent debut
No, this book isn't realy heavy literature, isn't a work of art, and probably won't be a candidate for inclusion into the canon, but it is a perfectly written, amusing, and an... Read more
Published on 26 May 2005 by primitivegrrl
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