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The Shah of Texas brings the absurdity of Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove and Joseph Heller's Catch-22 to early-2000s revelations of torture at Abu Ghraib. In the novel, Texas has declared itself anindependent nation from the United States and installed a Shah as its head of state. After years of war…


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A funny, funny satire! Green's writing is fresh and imaginative, direct, and hilarious.

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