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My Favorite Tyrants
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Series: Wisconsin Poetry
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ISBN10: 0299297845
ISBN13: 9780299297848
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: Sep 27 2016
Pages: 80
Weight: 0.34
Height: 0.26 Width: 7.13 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
Awards: Midwest Book Award (MIPA)
ISBN13: 9780299297848
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: Sep 27 2016
Pages: 80
Weight: 0.34
Height: 0.26 Width: 7.13 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
Awards: Midwest Book Award (MIPA)
In this bitingly funny and often surprising memoir, award-winning author and groundbreaking comedian Bob Smith offers a meditation on the vitality of the natural world--and an intimate portrait of his own darkly humorous and profoundly authentic response to a life-changing illness.
In Treehab--named after a retreat cabin in rural Ontario--Smith muses how he has always sought the path less traveled. He rebuffs his diagnosis of ALS as only an unflappable stand-up comic could (Lou Gehrig's Disease? But I don't even like baseball ) and explores his complex, fulfilling experience of fatherhood, both before and after the onset of the disease.
In Treehab--named after a retreat cabin in rural Ontario--Smith muses how he has always sought the path less traveled. He rebuffs his diagnosis of ALS as only an unflappable stand-up comic could (Lou Gehrig's Disease? But I don't even like baseball ) and explores his complex, fulfilling experience of fatherhood, both before and after the onset of the disease.
Stories of his writing and performing life--punctuated by hilariously cutting jokes that comedians tell only to each other--are interspersed with tales of Smith's enduring relationship with nature: boyhood sojourns in the woods of upstate New York and adult explorations of the remote Alaskan wilderness; snakes and turtles, rocks and minerals; open sky and forest canopy; God and friendship--all recurring touchstones that inspire him to fight for his survival and for the future of his two children.
Aiming his potent, unflinching wit at global warming, equal rights, sex, dogs, Thoreau, and more, Smith demonstrates here the inimitable insight that has made him a beloved voice of a generation. He reminds us that life is perplexing, beautiful, strange, and entirely worth celebrating.
Aiming his potent, unflinching wit at global warming, equal rights, sex, dogs, Thoreau, and more, Smith demonstrates here the inimitable insight that has made him a beloved voice of a generation. He reminds us that life is perplexing, beautiful, strange, and entirely worth celebrating.
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