In A Pryor Life
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In A Pryor Life
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Author : Jr Richard Pryor
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-03
In A Pryor Life written by Jr Richard Pryor and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"I survived. And that's what my book is about, a real-life story of overcoming obstacles, surviving, and thriving." - Richard Pryor Jr.
In A Pryor Life Hardback
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Author : Jr Richard Pryor
language : en
Publisher: BearManor Media
Release Date : 2019-03
In A Pryor Life Hardback written by Jr Richard Pryor and has been published by BearManor Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
When I was born, I weighed two pounds, three ounces. The doctor who examined me told my mother, "Congratulations, Mrs. Pryor, you have a boy! No, wait, it's a girl! No, it is a boy!" Mom cried, "What did I have? A freak?" Yes and No. My freakish life parallels my father's in many ways: a Peoria whorehouse, abuse, alcohol and drug addiction, and frequent bad decisions. But I survived. And that's what my book is about, a real-life story of overcoming obstacles, surviving, and thriving. Richard Pryor Jr.
Becoming Richard Pryor
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Author : Scott Saul
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2014-12-09
Becoming Richard Pryor written by Scott Saul and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-09 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A major biography—intimate, gripping, revelatory—of an artist who revolutionized American comedy. Richard Pryor may have been the most unlikely star in Hollywood history. Raised in his family’s brothels, he grew up an outsider to privilege. He took to the stage, originally, to escape the hard-bitten realities of his childhood, but later came to a reverberating discovery: that by plunging into the depths of his experience, he could make stand-up comedy as exhilarating and harrowing as the life he’d known. He brought that trembling vitality to Hollywood, where his movie career—Blazing Saddles, the buddy comedies with Gene Wilder, Blue Collar—flowed directly out of his spirit of creative improvisation. The major studios considered him dangerous. Audiences felt plugged directly into the socket of life. Becoming Richard Pryor brings the man and his comic genius into focus as never before. Drawing upon a mountain of original research—interviews with family and friends, court transcripts, unpublished journals, screenplay drafts—Scott Saul traces Pryor’s rough journey to the heights of fame: from his heartbreaking childhood, his trials in the Army, and his apprentice days in Greenwich Village to his soul-searching interlude in Berkeley and his ascent in the “New Hollywood” of the 1970s. Becoming Richard Pryor illuminates an entertainer who, by bringing together the spirits of the black freedom movement and the counterculture, forever altered the DNA of American comedy. It reveals that, while Pryor made himself a legend with his own account of his life onstage, the full truth of that life is more bracing still.
Pryor Convictions
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Author : Richard Pryor
language : en
Publisher: Barnacle Book
Release Date : 2018-04-24
Pryor Convictions written by Richard Pryor and has been published by Barnacle Book this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-24 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Originally published by Pantheon Books in 1995.
Furious Cool
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Author : David Henry
language : en
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Release Date : 2013-11-05
Furious Cool written by David Henry and has been published by Algonquin Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-05 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
“Richard Pryor was chain lightning to everything around him. He shocked the world through with human electricity. He blew all our comfortable balance to hell. And Furious Cool captures it brilliantly.” —Colum McCann, author of Let the Great World Spin Richard Pryor was arguably the single most influential performer of the second half of the twentieth century, and certainly he was the most successful black actor/comedian ever. Controversial and somewhat enigmatic during his life, Pryor’s performances opened up a whole new world of possibilities, merging fantasy with angry reality in a way that wasn’t just new—it was theretofore unthinkable. Now, in this groundbreaking and revelatory work, Joe and David Henry bring him alive again both as a man and as an artist, providing an in-depth appreciation of his talent and his lasting influence, as well as an insightful examination of the world he lived in and the myriad influences that shaped both his persona and his art. “Brothers David and Joe Henry have brought Richard Pryor back to pulsating life, affirming both his humanity and his immortality as a comic--and tragic--genius.” —The Huffington Post “A sleek, highly literate biography that places the comic in the pop-cultural context of his times.” —Bloomberg News “It would be enough if Furious Cool was a profile of Pryor’s uncanny talents, psychic turmoil, and ungovernable behavior, but it’s also a fascinating history of black comedy . . . Furious Cool captures Pryor’s frenetic routines and stage presence on the page . . . The inextricable legacy of Richard Pryor—his boldness, inventiveness, candor, and empathy—lives on.” —Los Angeles Magazine “An addictively readable study of the path of this outsized talent . . . Someday, when fewer people know Richard Pryor’s name, Furious Cool will be the best defense against the worst sort of forgetting--the kind that involves who we are now, who we loved once, and why.” —Esquire
Richard Pryor
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Author : Audrey Thomas McCluskey
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2008-09-17
Richard Pryor written by Audrey Thomas McCluskey and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-09-17 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"This anthology captures the spirit, zest, and cultural impact of Pryor's complex artistry."--Back cover.
Jokes My Father Never Taught Me
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Author : Rain Pryor
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2009-10-13
Jokes My Father Never Taught Me written by Rain Pryor and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-13 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The loving, witty, yet brutally honest memoir of the daughter of comedy legend Richard Pryor. Rain Pryor was born in the idealistic, free-love 1960s. Her mother was a Jewish go-go dancer who wanted a tribe of rainbow children. Rain’s father was Richard Pryor, perhaps the most compelling and brilliant comedian of his era, a man whose self-destructiveness was as legendary as his groundbreaking comedy. Jokes My Father Never Taught Me is an intimate, harrowing, poignant, and often hilarious memoir that explores the divided heritage and the forces that shaped a wildly schizophrenic childhood. It is the story of a girl who grew up adoring her father even as she feared him—and feared for him, as his drug problems got worse. Both lovingly told and painfully frank, it is an unprecedented look at the life of a comedy icon, told by a daughter who both understood the genius and knew the tortured man within. Praise for Jokes My Father Never Taught Me “Rain Pryor pulls no punches . . . Using the same profanity-laced wit her father perfected, she unspools darkly comic stories . . . but never devolves into self-pity or bitterness.” —Entertainment Weekly “Vital, entertaining and appalling, Pryor has fleshed out a familiar dysfunctional family refrain—”It was a lot easier to love him if you didn’t know him”—with bravery and wit.” —Publishers Weekly
Elizabeth I
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Author : Elizabeth I (Queen of England)
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2003
Elizabeth I written by Elizabeth I (Queen of England) and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603) ruled England for 45 turbulent years, and her reign has come to be seen as a golden age. She exercised supreme authority in a man's world, while remaining intensely feminine. She was Gloriana, the Virgin Queen, but is also held up as a role model for company executives in the twenty-first century. She is a near-legendary figure from a remote past who remains fascinatingly modern. This handsome volume has been published to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Elizabeth I's death in 1603. It illustrates in color and, where possible, in actual size, sixty manuscripts--either by Elizabeth or to her. Each one is accompanied by a running commentary, explaining the document and placing it in its historical context, and selected transcriptions or, where necessary, translations from the originals. Elizabeth was a girl of extraordinary precocity and a brilliant linguist. Her early letters, written in a beautiful italic, are to her forbidding father, Henry VIII, and to her brother and sister, Edward VI and "Bloody" Mary. The very first letter dates from when she was a child of eleven. The last, written nearly 60 years later, is a barely-legible scrawl addressed to her successor, the future James I. The letters from her in-tray are no less extraordinary. Tsar Ivan the Terrible rounds on her in a blind fury after she refuses to marry him. The Earl of Essex, young enough to be her son, pours out declarations of love: a few pages further on is to be found her signed warrant for his execution. There are letters from ministers and galley slaves, spies and traitors, coded letters, warrants for torture, speeches to parliament, and the original--only recently identified--of the most famous of all her utterances: "I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king."
Alright Let S Call It A Draw
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Author : John Paul Pryor
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012-07-01
Alright Let S Call It A Draw written by John Paul Pryor and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07-01 with Iraq War, 2003-2011 categories.
Dr. John Pryor never thought he was in any real danger as a combat surgeon. After all, he wasn't going out on patrols, risking his life dodging IEDs. Unlike the grunts fighting urban combat, he remained within the safe confines of the field hospital. So, no one was more surprised than John when a rocket blast claimed his life on Christmas morning, 2008. He was 42 years old.This incredible narrative details the life of a modern-day patriot and humanitarian. Throughout his life Dr. Pryor refused to ignore that inner voice compelling him to serve, both his fellow man and the country he loved.Funny, poignant, powerful, and ultimately tragic, this vivid memoir guides you through a personal and intimate account of Dr. Pryor's lifefrom speeding in an ambulance as a teenager, to medical school in Grenada; from operating on trauma victims, to searching the rubble on 9-11and battling death as combat surgeon in Iraq.Dr. Pryor's untimely death not only cheated us of his surgical skills and medical knowledge, but the greater life lessons he championed: integrity, honesty, altruism and humanity. Alright, Let's Call it a Draw is a inspirational narrative meant to salvage these lessons to be shared with those he left behind.
Pryor Convictions And Other Life Sentences
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Author : Richard Pryor
language : en
Publisher: Pantheon
Release Date : 1995
Pryor Convictions And Other Life Sentences written by Richard Pryor and has been published by Pantheon this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Pryor tells the story of his life, from his childhood in Peoria, Illinois, through his growth as a comedian, to his battle with addiction and, in later years, multiple sclerosis.