Simple Grifts by Max Cossack

Simple Grifts by Max Cossack

Professor Soren Pafko has made a life and career out of lying, conniving, manipulating, and abusing everyone in his path. So far, it's working great: he's Chair of his College's Department of Comparative Literature; he's leader of the local chapter of the Democratic Communists of America; and when he wants to cheat on his wife, he's got his pick of women who think he's the second coming of Che Guevara. In short, his life is peachy. But when he flunks local yokel Gus Dropo's teenage son for a politically incorrect classroom comment, everything in Professor Pafko's world begins to go hilariously wrong.From early reviews: Max Cossack is the funniest political writer in decades. one of the bargains of the year. Highly recommended Still gigglingGreat read, completely unpredictable and kept me up nights to finish.Five stars and two thumbs up. Witty, great fun, fast-paced.best of all, lots of laughsGreat Grifter StoryHilarious

Cossack, Max: - His motto: Today's headlines are ripped from the pages of my novels! Growing up, Max Cossack nursed a burning desire to live his life out as an old-time mountain man, but all the best mountains were already overbuilt with condos. Instead, Max has worked in factories, steel yards, music and gunsmithing. When he gets tired of one job--which happens a lot--he just moves on to the next. Recently he met a guy who writes novels for a living. It didn't take Max long to notice the guy works only four hours a day, makes decent money, and spends the rest of his time doing whatever he wants. That seemed nice, so Max decided he should write novels himself, figuring he could just make up stuff during the four hours he writes. Then to make good use of his leisure, he could draw on his vast experience as a layabout and ne'er-do-well. Max now spends part of his new free time thinking up stories about things he loves and plotting against big institutions he despises. For example, he loves America, good music regardless of style, and good food in large quantities. Also small smart-aleck women and big loud-mouthed men. He despises big institutions that push people around, whether the institutions are governments or private corporations or some especially obnoxious combination of both. (You know who they are.) Max also loathes the politicians and media hacks who lie on behalf of these bullies and adores those among us who push back. Since lying by omission is often the bullies' go-to form of dishonesty, Max especially likes to write into his novels the realities the liars purposely ignore. Max doesn't delude himself into believing his novels will make a huge difference, but any nudge in the right direction is worth the effort. That's why he writes about people who get fed up and fight back. Even if some of these wonderful people are only figments of Max's imagination, all of us--even Max himself--can learn from their example.

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ISBN 13	9781733731331
ISBN 10	1733731334
Title	Simple Grifts
Author	Max Cossack
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Vwam, LLC
Year published	2019-08-25
Number of pages	206
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