George & Martha

by Karen Finley

Book Overview

George and Martha meet in a seedy motel room on the night before the Republican National Convention. Their affair goes way back, before George stole the election, before Martha built an empire on... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1844670643
• ISBN13: 9781844670642
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: Verso
• Length: 105 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Sheer Brilliance!

An ideal summer read for the alternatively-minded: brisk, hilarious, and smart as all hell. Pass it along!

Karen Finley Does it Again!

Very few have the ability to expose our culture's psychosocial underbelly as incisively and intuitively as Karen Finley. Her hilarious satire of a love affair between George W. Bush and Martha Stewart not only provides much-needed comic relief in distressing times, but also excavates the pathology of two individuals reflective of and dominant in the national psyche. No doubt, it's a lewd and shocking bit of literature. But in contrast to the corruption of US politicians and the country's pervasive sexism, Finley's latest diatribe is wholesome and and utterly in defense of morality.

Devastating satire

Riffing on Edward Albee's 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe?' and the mama and daddy of our country, George and Martha paints a brief portrait of George W. and Martha Stewart's complicated love affair. The two icons of global crisis and domestic comfort talk, drink, fight, love, and reveal their respective hard and soft spots on a hideous polyester bedspread in a hotel room. This is devestating and biting satire on the order of Steven Colbert's recent performance White House Correspondents Dinner. It's incredibly funny, - but um, why aren't we laughing? The book includes hundreds of illustrations also by Finley. I loved it!!

Fearless!

a must read! an outrageous story of sex and politics, as only karen finley could tell. read it. pass it on.

Outrageous and Wonderful

George & Martha is hilarious, filled with wonderful illustrations and crazy scenarios. Karen Finley's smart and radical idea of George W. Bush and Martha Stewart having an on-going affair is brilliant. Their somewhat twisted relationship manages to capture all that's currently wrong with this country. Politically smart and sexually charged it's laugh out loud funny but cry inside tragic. Read this book!