Florence of Arabia A Novel Paperback - 2005
by Buckley, Christopher
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Appalled by the punishment of her rebellious friend, Florence Farfarletti decides to draw a line in the sand, and invents a plan for female emancipation in this biting satire of how U.S. good intentions can cause the Shiite to hit the fan.
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- Title Florence of Arabia A Novel
- Author Buckley, Christopher
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 272
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Random House Trade Paperbacks, New York
- Date 2005
- Bookseller's Inventory # 11895
- ISBN 9780812972269 / 0812972260
- Weight 0.45 lbs (0.20 kg)
- Dimensions 7.94 x 5.26 x 0.6 in (20.17 x 13.36 x 1.52 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Arab World
- Cultural Region: Middle Eastern
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress subjects Humorous fiction, Political fiction
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Appalled by the punishment of her rebellious friend Nazrah, youngest and most petulant wife of Prince Bawad of Wasabia, Florence Farfarletti decides to draw a line in the sand. As Deputy to the deputy assistant secretary for Near East Affairs, Florence invents a far-reaching, wide-ranging plan for female emancipation in that part of the world.
The U.S. government, of course, tells her to forget it. Publicly, that is. Privately, she's enlisted in a top-secret mission to impose equal rights for the sexes on the small emirate of Matar (pronounced "Mutter"), the "Switzerland of the Persian Gulf." Her crack team: a CIA killer, a snappy PR man, and a brilliant but frustrated gay bureaucrat. Her weapon: TV shows.
The lineup on TV Matar includes "A Thousand and One Mornings, a daytime talk show that features self-defense tips to be used against boyfriends during Ramadan; an addictive soap opera featuring strangely familiar members of the Matar royal family; and a sitcom about an inept but ruthless squad of religious police, pitched as ""Friends from Hell."
The result: the first deadly car bombs in the country since 1936, a fatwa against the station's entire staff, a struggle for control of the kingdom, and, of course, interference from the French. And that's only the beginning.
A merciless dismantling of both American ineptitude andArabic intolerance, "Florence of Arabia is Christopher Buckley's funniest and most serious novel yet, a biting satire of how U.S. good intentions can cause the Shiite to hit the fan.
"From the Hardcover edition.
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Citations
- Commonweal, 06/17/2005, Page 26
- Ingram Advance, 09/01/2005, Page 65
