Revenge of the Donut Boys: True Stories of Lust, Fame, Survival and Multiple Personality - Softcover

Sager, Mike

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0998079383 ISBN 13: 9780998079387

Publisher: Sager Group, The, 2018

Synopsis

From ground zero of the deadliest wildfire in California history to the cozy living room of super-spokesmodel Brooke Burke; from the recording studio with gangsta-rap pioneer Ice Cube to the tour bus with the Satanic metal band Slayer; this tough but lyrical collection of seventeen stories, by award-winning Esquire and Rolling Stone writer Mike Sager, brings into sharp focus the rich but confusing state of American life– its values, virtues, obsessions, and hypocrisies--in this second edition of his bestselling collection.

Domestic Goddess Roseanne Barr battles Multiple Personality Disorder... Swingers attend a “fantasy weekend” in Pensacola... Twelve-year-olds joyride in stolen cars through the ruins of the Newark ghetto... Desmond the butler services the hoi polloi on Park Avenue... Football Hall-of-Famer Mike Ditka enjoys his summer vacation of golf, cigars, and private jets... Newly minted dot.com billionaire Mark Cuban buys himself an NBA basketball team...

Deeply focused long-form narrative journalism from the writer who has been called “the Beat poet of American journalism– that rare reporter who can make literature out of shabby reality.” A Second Edition, with updated material and author's note.

About this title

About the Author:

Mike Sager is a best-selling author and award-winning reporter. A former Washington Post staff writer under Watergate investigator Bob Woodward, he worked closely, during his years as a contributing editor to Rolling Stone, with gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson. Sager is the author of seven collections of non-fiction, two novels, one biography, two textbooks and several eBooks. For more than twenty-five years he has written for Esquire. In 2010 he won the American Society of Magazine Editors’ National Magazine Award for profile writing. Many of his stories have inspired films, including Boogie Nights, with Mark Wahlberg, and Veronica Guerin, with Cate Blanchett. For more information, please see www.MikeSager.com.

Review:

"Sager plays Virgil in the modern American Inferno." -Kirkus Reviews

"Like his journalistic precursors Tom Wolfe and Hunter S. Thompson, Sager writes frenetic, off-kilter pop-sociological profiles of Americans in all their vulgarity and vitality. He writes with flair, but only in the service of an omnivorous curiosity. He defies expectations in pieces that lesser writers would play for satire or sensationalism... a Whitmanesque ode to teeming humanity's mystical unity."-The New York Times Book Review

"Sager writes in convincingly novelistic detail and supple, pinpoint prose about the inner lives of a high school junior, a 92-year-old man, Slayer fans, swingers, struggling actors, Mike Ditka, and wildfire victims. The title piece is one of his best...A-." - Entertainment Weekly

"Esquire writer-at-large Sager (Scary Monsters and Super Freaks) demonstrates a lively curiosity about other people's lives, hopes, fears and disappointments in these 17 previously published articles. Sager's nimble celebrity profiles include Emmy winner Roseanne Barr, who attributes her multiple-personality disorder to an abusive mother, but more affecting are the everyday struggles of "almost famous" actors Steve Bean and Lynn Clark, who stay sane in the face of numerous professional rejections. Sager's best pieces showcase people battling nature: aging hippie and sandal-maker Lee Risler cuts off his own arm to free himself from a wrecked van and wears his stump as a badge of honor. Despite some forgetfulness and frailty, 92-year-old widower Glenn Brown Sanberg has a girlfriend with Alzheimer's and writes a weekly newspaper column. In a whimsical yet satisfying search for other Mike Sagers the author finds instant kinship with a police captain, a politician and a preacher. These are savvy, deftly written highlights from a talented career." -Publisher's Weekly

About this edition

• Publisher: Sager Group, The
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0998079383
• ISBN 13: 9780998079387
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 356