false <![CDATA[End Credits]]> 3265567 1 A Novel About Life, Death, and Truth in Advertising<p> Raymond Kessel is dead. Or is he? Death, it seems, is not as advertised. Welcome to the Afterlife, the new and improved version, in which corporate image and downsizing have revolutionized eternity.<p> A. F. Rutzy's wryly comic and wonderfully weird debut is a novel that picks up the modern American zeitgeist, turns it upside down, and shakes it for loose change. "End Credits" is top-notch satire, illuminating the absurd and private tragedies of lives bound by public convention with both biting humor and benevolent sympathy. Rutzy's ironic tone and piquant observations of urban American life illuminate the rollicking roller coaster of our national psyche. Surprising, morbid, and addictive, "End Credits" will permanently alter the reader's perspective. 3300887 28 4 2008 End Credits total:28|5:12|4:9|3:5|2:1|1:1| 28 114 87 10 5 5 false false Thu Oct 02 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 26 07:07:02 -0700 2008 Tue Oct 21 09:40:53 -0700 2008 End Credits pages, if not always laughing, then at least smirking at the clever and witty story. Rutzy bludgeons his readers again and again with wacky similes that make you want to stop and share...more...]]> 3 5 false false Fri Jan 23 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 03 14:25:15 -0800 2008 Fri Jan 23 13:51:34 -0800 2009
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