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Your Call is Important to Us |
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| Format | Softcover | |
| Catalogue No. | 0-7710-7042-X | |
| Pages | 278 | |
| Language | English only | |
| Price | $22.99 | |
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Written by Laura Penny. Published by McClelland & Stewart Ltd., 2005. Description: |
| Ever been left spluttering over some fatuous fib
trying to pass itself off as information, even as fact? Of course you have. We
all have. It’s bull, and as Laura Penny sees it, we’re drowning in
the stuff. Your Call Is Important to Us is Penny’s brilliant take on the “all-you-can-eat buffet of phoniness” that is our lives today. “We live in an era of unprecedented bull*** production,” Penny says. While bull is not new, more money, more media, and more people at mics have led to a bull pandemic. Today, we are so used to exaggeration and obfuscation we rarely notice them any more.Thank goodness we have Penny as our witty, smart-aleck guide through the phoniness of advertising and public relations, the claptrap of big pharma, the gobbledygook of the media, and the poppycock of the service industry. Along the way, Penny takes direct aim at the major culprits and the insidious ways they distort reality. As scathing as Michael Moore, as incisive as Naomi Klein, and as funny as Al Franken, Penny’s take on the bull factor in modern life is a page-turner. Penny has a cheeky riff on that revealing question: “If my call is so important,” she asks, “why doesn’t anyone answer the damn phone?” |
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