- Scandals, Gay men, Fiction, Teleshopping
Light and funny, with a bitter aftertaste, the action of Sellevision takes place behind the scenes (and on the set) of a successful television shopping network, where a feminine role model, Peggy Jean Smythe, the married, Christian mother of three, begins receiving suspicious e-mail from a viewer who insists that Peggy's hairy earlobe is obscuring her presentation of jewelry during the broadcast.
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Contemporary, classical in form, comic and cool.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
- effortlessdemanding
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- Author
- Augusten Burroughs
- First published
- 2000
- Pages
- 229
- Publisher
- Picador, Audio Renaissance, St. Martin's Griffin
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780312267728
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“"You exposed your penis on national television, Max.”
Augusten Xon Burroughs is an American writer known for his New York Times bestselling memoir Running with Scissors (2002).
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