Ergebnis für "Obsession" in Satire

In Lionel Shriver’s entertaining send-up of today’s cult of exercise—which not only encourages better health, but now like all religions also seems to promise meaning, social superiority, and eternal life—an aging husband’s sudden obsession with extreme sport makes him unbearable...

A recent college grad moves to Tokyo in pursuit of her all-consuming anime obsession, in a darkly humorous debut for fans of Colored Television and Big Swiss. Having recently graduated from a prestigious university, a young woman who goes by Rina moves to Tokyo to complete academic research and...

Gym by Verena Kessler is a sweat-slicked, painfully funny novel about obsession, ambition and a woman’s doomed attempt to run from herself. Translated from the German by Lucy Jones. A woman walks into a gym and lies to get a job. The gym is a palace of possibility. Here she can transform and...