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Review “I started reading The Magic Christian and I thought I was going to go insane . . . It was an incredible influence on me.” —Hunter S. Thompson “[ The Magic Christian ] is at once the most profoundly satiric and wildly comic account of our life and times in years.” —Nelson Algren “Terry Southern is the most profoundly witty writer of our generation, and in The Magic Christian he surpasses Flaubert′s Bouvard et Pécuchet , a work similarly inspired by conventional wisdom′s serene idiocy.” —Gore Vidal “Terry Southern is the illegitimate son of Mack Sennet and Edna Saint Vincent Millay.” —Kurt Vonnegut “Terry Southern was one of the first and best of the new wave of American writers, defining the cutting edge of black comedy.” —Joseph Heller Product Description In this uproarious and wicked cult-classic, Southern skewers American greed and pomposity Guy Grand, an eccentric billionaire prankster, is rich enough to do whatever he likes. And what he likes is to carefully execute projects where he can cauterize by ridicule what the rest of the world ignores: complacency, greed, corruption, and idi

Who reads The Magic Christian?

Author

Southern, Terry

Publisher

Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.

Published

1959

Language

EN

ISBN

9781453217337

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction

Rating

3.51 / 5 (28 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14