Christopher Buckley Bücher

Die Geschichte handelt von einem ehemaligen Wall-Street-Profi, der als Bruder Ty Mönch wird, um seinem Leben eine neue Richtung zu geben. Im Kloster Kana, das kurz vor dem Bankrott steht, findet er in der Heiligen Schrift überraschende Börsentipps und entdeckt dabei sieben geistige Gesetze, die andere Gurus übertreffen.

Danke, daß Sie hier rauchen ist der spannende Roman eines Insiders. Er zeigt am Beispiel der Tabakindustrie den Zustand einer Gesellschaft als Spielball von Lobbyisten und Fundamentalisten aller Art. Der Ex-Raucher Christopher Buckley schöpft hier alle Facetten von Zynismus und schwarzem Humor aus, den das Sujet hergibt.

In "Florence von Arabien" von Christopher Buckley weigert sich Nazrah al-Bawad, in das fundamentalistische Königreich Wasabien zurückzukehren, und wird bestraft. Ihre Freundin Florence startet einen Fernsehsender, der Frauen in Wasabien befreien soll. Der Roman kombiniert düstere Themen mit witziger Satire und scharfsinnigen Dialogen.

Specters as various as Vallejo, Szymborska, Neruda, Fidel Castro, and Groucho Marx guide and support the elegies in Christopher Buckley's new collection. A god that may or may not be there as well as politics, memory, history, popular culture, philosophy, and a good deal of arm wrestling with chance inform Buckley's on-going debate between faith and doubt, science and religion. Buckley brings his customary sense of irony and slant humor to bear on the deep inquiry into our collective fates in Agnostic.

Christopher Buckley?s latest book continues his exploration of how, despite the intellectual tools of science and philosophy, we are still somehow left with questions about identity, memory, love, loss, value, self, and God?not to mention the depredations of war. In his poetry and nonfiction, he has considered these matters in the belief that the answers to their mysteries are in the very act of pursuit. On every page is the work of a consummate artist who is also, recognizably, a companion spirit on the journey all of creation has been on all this time.

This book follows the fortunes of the great Soviet airliners over the last three decades and looks at what happened to this immense fleet of Antonovs, Ilyushins, Tupolevs and Yaks. Illustrated with 220 photos, and supported by many anecdotes, facts and figures, this book conveys the nostalgia and wonder of this tumultuous time in aviation history.

The narrative intertwines the observations of a keen observer with a poet's emotional depth, capturing the vibrancy of springtime Paris. Through vivid imagery, it explores the nuances of everyday life, from a bus driver to a mechanic, revealing deeper truths about identity and experience. The blend of lyrical urgency and patient storytelling creates a rich tapestry of moments that resonate with both humor and introspection.

With a pajama-clad President Reagan refusing to leave the White House on his successor’s Inauguration Day, Buckley has given this farce of Oval Office politics a nearly perfect beginning. Parodying the familiar form of the White House memoir, Buckley recounts the turbulent years of the Democratic Tucker administration, as told by loyalist Herbert Wadlough. Through this former accountant’s eyes, we see the infighting that plagues the White House, the President’s faltering marriage to a former starlet, and his ongoing crises.

Steaming to Bamboola is a story of the author's time at sea. He tells first- hand about typhoons, cargoes, smuggling, mid-ocean burials, rescues, stowaways, hard places, hard drinking, and hard romance.