Selling Out: If Famous Authors Wrote Advertising - Softcover

Green, Joey

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0977259056 ISBN 13: 9780977259052

Publisher: Lunatic Press, 2011

Synopsis

In Selling Out, author Joey Green has taken the voices of famous writers past and present - from Nathaniel Hawthorne to e. e. cummings, Jane Austen to Erica Jong - and fashioned their words into the ad campaigns they might have written if their prose pushed brand-name products. Sure to raise a chuckle from anyone who ever watched television commercials, as well as from those slightly familiar with classic literature, Selling Out is a hysterical look at what our most famous authors might have written if they'd sold their souls to advertising. For this revised and expanded second edition, Green added another fifteen parodies, bringing the total to fifty unforgettable ad campaigns, including William Blake's "Tony Tiger," Franz Kafka's "Raid Kills Bugs Dead," John Updike's "Rabbit Keeps Going and Going," and George Orwell's "The Un-Cola."

About this title

About the Author:

Joey Green, a former contributing editor to National Lampoon, is the author of more than 50 books, including You Know You've Reached Middle Age If . . . , Weird and Wonderful Christmas, and Dumb History.

Review:

How would famous authors write advertising today if given the chance? Green's hilarious spoof on literary creation takes the voices and creations of famous writers and pairs their approach to possible ads: "Tony Tiger, goodness sakes,/Eats a bowl of Frosted Flakes;/What brave artist dared create/The mighty beast who roars "They're G-R-R-R-E-A-T! -- Midwest Book Review

"Ever wonder what commericals would be like if they were penned by famous writers? In Selling Out, author Joey Green presents hilarious 'advertisements' that are true to the style and spirit of classic writers." --The Buffalo News

"If Willy Shakespeare or Robert Frost or Ernest Hemingway were alive today, would they be writing ads? That's the premise of Selling Out by Joey Green. And the results are both hilarious and wicked . . . If you can't find something funny in this slim book, perhaps you're illiterate." --San Jose Mercury News

About this edition

• Publisher: Lunatic Press
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0977259056
• ISBN 13: 9780977259052
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 168