Ali Dubyiah and the Forty Thieves: A Contemporary Fable

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NewSouth Books, 2006 - Fiction - 143 pages
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Told from a vantage point of long ago and far away, Ali Dubyiah and the Forty Thieves reconstructs--from the recently discovered journals of Ibrahim Barzouni--the tale of the ruler George W. Dubyiah Fratbush, son of the earlier monarch Wimpbush, and the Fall of the American Empire. After Ali Dubyiah ascends to the kingship, his lust for power draws him into a gambit to take possession of the world, together with his band of thieves--including Dick Chaingang, Donald Rumsfailed, and Paul Werewolf. But how long can Ali Dubyiah lie, cheat, and steal before his subjects rise up against him?
 

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Page 5 - Do not veil the truth with falsehood, nor conceal the truth knowingly.
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Page 5 - Know the truth and the truth shall set you free,
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About the author (2006)

John Egerton was a "professional South-watcher" for over half a century. Beginning in high school in the 1950s, through two years in the U.S. Army, five years earning two college degrees, five more as a college news bureau reporter, six as a magazine writer, and for the past thirty-five years as an independent journalist and author, he seldom strayed far from his life's work: following the social and culture, political and economic trends that forever have made the American South the unique place that it is, for better and worse. Until the publication of Ali Dubyiah and the Forty Thieves , all his publishing writing, including more than fifteen books, had been classified as nonfiction. He called this book "a fable ... a parable ... a cautionary tale" in the genre of "political science-fiction," and he claims that he "did not so much author it as synthesize it from hundreds of sources, compile it, and become by default the one to present it to the reading public. Fables don't have authors. They're found, heard, passed down.

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TitleAli Dubyiah and the Forty Thieves: A Contemporary Fable
AuthorJohn Egerton
PublisherNewSouth Books, 2006
ISBN1588382028, 9781588382023
Length143 pages
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