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Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey Through the Deep State
Maybe someday
47
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Readers
26/100Critics
67/100Scholars
Author:
Kerry Howley
Publisher:
Knopf
Date:
March 21, 2023
Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs tells the true story of intelligence specialist Reality Winner, a lone young woman who stuffs a state secret under her skirt and trusts the wrong people to help. After printing five pages of dangerous information she was never supposed to see, Winner finds herself at the mercy of forces more invasive than she could have possibly imagined.
What The Reviewers Say
The book is riveting and darkly funny and, in all senses of the word, unclassifiable.
Howley manages to push beyond partisan hack work to lay bare the flaws or biases in everyone’s read on Reality.
The book is full of suggestive swerves and leaps of association, Howley’s attempts at getting us to look again at subjects and stories that might have been shocking once upon a time, but which we’ve grown used to living with.
Wide-ranging, often chilling.
