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''Sellevision'' (2000) a novel is the first work published by Augusten Burroughs, author of the best-selling books ''Running with Scissors,'' ''Dry,'' and ''Magical Thinking.'' Unlike Burroughs’ subsequent memoirs, ''Sellevision'' is a work of fiction. "Sellevision" is a comedy that contains themes of greed and obsession. It is about four people, Max Andrews, Peggy Jean Smythe, Leigh, and Bebe, and their lives, all linked together with Sellevision, a television company. Burroughs wrote the novel when he was getting sober. “I woke up one morning hung over, and I sat down and I wrote something,” Burroughs said in an interview. “It was two pages and it made me laugh, and I hadn’t laughed for years at that point, and that turned out to be the first couple pages of my first book, which was ''Sellevision''. It’s a novel about the home shopping world, that whole world—and, I didn’t know what I had written. But it amused me, so I kept on writing, and I wrote until very late that night. And I drank a little bit less. And the same thing the next day. Again, I had no idea what I was doing or where it was coming from, but by the seventh day, I was not drinking at all.“〔Interview with August Burroughs, David Shankbone, ''Wikinews'', October 12, 2007.〕 == Characters == ; Max Andrews: Only main male character. Is fired from Sellevision after accidentally showing his genitals on live TV. ; Peggy Jean Smythe: Considered the “top host” at Sellevision, she turns to Valium and alcohol after receiving stalking e-mails. ; Bebe Friedman: An older, single woman who finally finds her soulmate, only to find out that they might be “closer” than they thought. ; Leigh Bushmoore: One of the younger hosts on Sellevision, she is entangled in an affair with her married boss. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sellevision」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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