Blockbuster

by Patricia Marx and Douglas G. McGrath

Former Saturday Night Live writers Patricia Marx and Douglas G. McGrath take aim at Hollywood in this wicked, satirical novel about the making of the flop of flops. Through the 1930s and 40s, X. Y.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0553344986
• ISBN13: 9780553344981
• Release Date: July 1988
• Publisher: Random House
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

Best comic novel since the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy!

Written in a crisp pseudo-journalistic style, with the conceit that the two authors are actually researching a book on the production of a major movie blockbuster (based on the "The Pilgrim's Progress"! ), the book is a hilarious takeoff on the insanity of the movie business. In the process, industry icons such as Barbra Streisand, Alfred Hitchcock, and Steven Spielberg receive dead-on-target sendups. If you like the absurdist humor of Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchett, Christopher Durang, and MST 3000, you will love this book.