| Brilliant, Brilliant, Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant: Essays Contributor(s): Golby, Joel (Author) |
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ISBN: 052556277X ISBN-13: 9780525562771 Publisher: Anchor Books OUR PRICE: $16.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Popular Culture - Humor | Form - Essays - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs |
| Dewey: 824.92 |
| LCCN: 2018030398 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.1" W x 7.9" (0.40 lbs) 304 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: *National Bestseller* This is a funny and beautiful book. What a little bastard. --Russell Brand Every paragraph is like doing a shot with a friend. A double. --Caitlin Moran Joel Golby's writing for Vice and The Guardian, with its wry observation and naked self-reflection, has brought him a wide and devoted following. Now, in his first book, he presents a blistering collection of new and newly expanded essays--including the achingly funny viral hit Things You Only Know When Both Your Parents Are Dead. In these pages, he travels to Saudi Arabia, where he acts as a perplexed bystander at a camel pageant; offers a survival guide for the modern dinner party (i.e. how to tactfully escape at the first sign of an adult board game); and gets pitted head-to-head, again and again, with an unpredictable, unpitying subspecies of Londoner: the landlord. Through it all, he shows that no matter how cruel the misfortune, how absurd the circumstance, there's always the soft punch of a lesson tucked within. This is a book for anyone who overshares, overthinks, has ever felt lost or confused--and who wants to have a good laugh about it. |
