- Fiction, Unidentified flying objects, Alien abduction, Sightings and encounters
The reluctant hero of this hilarious novel is John Oliver Banion, a stuffy Washington talk-show host, whose privileged life is thrown into upheaval when aliens abduct him from his exclusive country-club golf course.
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Contemporary, comic, classical in form and cool.
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- warmbleak
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About the book
- First published
- 1999
- Pages
- 317
- Publisher
- HarperPerennial, Allison & Busby, Penguin Random House
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781780336770
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“"Ten seconds." John O. Banion stared unblinkingly into the TV camera's cyclops eye, keeping his famous cool under the baking glare of the Videssence lights.”
An American political satirist and author.
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