{"id":8676,"date":"2014-08-01T12:05:38","date_gmt":"2014-08-01T16:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/?p=8676"},"modified":"2014-08-01T12:05:38","modified_gmt":"2014-08-01T16:05:38","slug":"i-review-christopher-behas-new-novel-of-reality-tv-redemption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2014\/08\/i-review-christopher-behas-new-novel-of-reality-tv-redemption.html","title":{"rendered":"I Review Christopher Beha’s New Novel of Reality-TV Redemption"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

for AmCon:<\/p>\n

Christopher Beha\u2019s Arts & Entertainments<\/em><\/a> is built around a classic morality-tale structure: the devil\u2019s bargain, the spiraling consequences, the choice between a good reputation and a good conscience.<\/p>\n

Eddie Hartley is an acting teacher of the \u201cthose who can\u2019t do\u201d type, whose marriage is being ground down by his wife Susan\u2019s longing for the children they can\u2019t conceive on their own. To pay for another round of IVF treatments, Hartley sells a sex tape from his youthful relationship with an actress who has gone on to become a megastar. He plans to keep his face off the tape and his name out of the press, but that plan turns out as well as literally all of his previous ones.<\/p>\n

Hartley becomes a celebrity: what we have instead of Punch and Judy shows, or lives of the saints. He\u2019s part Wile E. Coyote, the battered villain whose pain provokes the audience\u2019s laughter, and part scapegoat, punished and outcast for our sins as much as for his own. By the end of the novel he\u2019s been fired, kicked out by his wife, pelted with eggs, even drained of blood; a shadowy reality-TV king (albeit a king enslaved by his audience) orchestrates a reunion with Susan which is as unsettling as the drugged-up \u201chappy ending\u201d of A Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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