Not A Laughing Matter
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No Laughing Matter
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Author : Joseph Heller
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2004-12-15
No Laughing Matter written by Joseph Heller and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-12-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
An uproarious and frank memoir of illness and recovery, No Laughing Matter is a story of friendship and recuperation from the author of the classic Catch-22. It all began one typical day in the life of Joe Heller. He was jogging four miles at a clip these days, working on his novel God Knows, coping with the complications of an unpleasant divorce, and pigging out once or twice a week on Chinese food with cronies like Mel Brooks, Mario Puzo, and his buddy of more than twenty years, Speed Vogel. He was feeling perfectly fine that day—but within twenty-four hours he would be in intensive care at Manhattan's Mount Sinai Hospital. He would remain hospitalized for nearly six months and leave in a wheelchair. Joseph Heller had Guillain-Barré syndrome, a debilitating, sometimes fatal condition that can leave its victims paralyzed from head to toe. The clan gathered immediately. Speed—sometime artist, sometime businessman, sometime herring taster, and now a coauthor—moved into Joe's apartment as messenger, servant, and shaman. Mel Brooks, arch-hypochondriac of the Western world, knew as much about Heller's condition as the doctors. Mario Puzo, author of the preeminent gangster novel of our time, proved to be the most reluctant man ever to be dragged along on a hospital visit. These and lots of others rallied around the sickbed in a show of loyalty and friendship that not only built a wild and spirited camaraderie but helped bring Joe Heller, writer and buddy extraordinaire, through his greatest crisis. This book is an inspiring, hilarious memoir of a calamitous illness and the rocky road to recuperation—as only the author of Catch-22 and the friend who helped him back to health could tell it. No Laughing Matter is as wacky, terrifying, and greathearted as any fiction Joseph Heller ever wrote.
No Laughing Matter
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019
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No Laughing Matter
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Author : Gershon Legman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1982
No Laughing Matter written by Gershon Legman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with Social Science categories.
The Laughing Matter
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Author : William Saroyan
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2014-12-18
The Laughing Matter written by William Saroyan and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-18 with Fiction categories.
When Evan Nazarenus returns from a teaching post at the summer school in Nebraska, he cannot wait for a couple of blissful weeks spent with his wife and two children in Clovis, a small town where his brother has a summer house. But soon after they arrive for the long awaited holiday, Swan, Evan's wife, announces that she is expecting a child ... who is not fathered by Evan. This news shocks and hurts Evan deeply, but for his children's sake he decides to keep it to himself through the holidays they dreamt of for so long. But a family secret of such calibre is difficult to hide and the curious small-town neighbours begin to notice that something is amiss with the couple. The Laughing Matter, first published in 1953, is a disturbing family drama set against the landscape of a small Californian town, with a close-knit community who embrace new-comers with the curiosity of those hungry for gossip. William Saroyan draws his characters with immense sensitivity for human erring and self-inflicted suffering.
Not A Laughing Matter
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Author : Jillian Hampton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2024-02-19
Not A Laughing Matter written by Jillian Hampton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-02-19 with Fiction categories.
'Not A Laughing Matter' is the sequel to 'I Woke Up Laughing'. It is also the continuation of a fictional love story. A 'What If' scenario testing the boundaries of Faith and Love. 'What If' life and love didn't have to be so complicated? 'What If' we let our faith govern our trust; And our truth allowed us to trust love? If we step out of faith and trust our heart, we can love and be loved without fear of what others may think. We might just set an example. We might just offer another option.
Don T Applaud Either Laugh Or Don T At The Comedy Cellar
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Author : Andrew Hankinson
language : en
Publisher: Scribe Publications
Release Date : 2020-08-27
Don T Applaud Either Laugh Or Don T At The Comedy Cellar written by Andrew Hankinson and has been published by Scribe Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-27 with Performing Arts categories.
This is a book about three things: 1. A room called the Comedy Cellar. 2. Who gets to speak in that room. 3. What they get to say. AMY SCHUMER. LOUIS CK. JERRY SEINFELD. CHRIS ROCK. They all worked the Comedy Cellar in Greenwich Village, honing their acts, experimenting, taking risks. It was a safe space, thanks to the principles of its first owner, Manny Dworman, then his son Noam. The only threat to freedom of expression was a lack of laughs. But how did a New York taxi driver, born in Tel Aviv, create comedy’s most important stage? How did he influence some of the biggest names in stand-up? What are the limits of a joke? Who decides? And why does the comedians’ table matter so much? Andrew Hankinson speaks to the Cellar’s owner, comedians, and audience members, using interviews, emails, podcasts, letters, text messages, and previously private documents to create a conversation about the perils, pride, and prejudice of modern comedy. Moving backwards in time from Louis CK’s downfall to when Manny used to host folk singers including Bob Dylan, this is about a comedy club, but it’s also about the widening chasm in contemporary culture.
No Laughing Matter
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Author : Angus Wilson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1967
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Humour
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Author : Terry Eagleton
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2019-05-14
Humour written by Terry Eagleton and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-14 with Philosophy categories.
A compelling guide to the fundamental place of humour and comedy within Western culture—by one of its greatest exponents Written by an acknowledged master of comedy, this study reflects on the nature of humour and the functions it serves. Why do we laugh? What are we to make of the sheer variety of laughter, from braying and cackling to sniggering and chortling? Is humour subversive, or can it defuse dissent? Can we define wit? Packed with illuminating ideas and a good many excellent jokes, the book critically examines various well-known theories of humour, including the idea that it springs from incongruity and the view that it reflects a mildly sadistic form of superiority to others. Drawing on a wide range of literary and philosophical sources, Terry Eagleton moves from Aristotle and Aquinas to Hobbes, Freud, and Bakhtin, looking in particular at the psychoanalytical mechanisms underlying humour and its social and political evolution over the centuries.
No Laughing Matter
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
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No Laughing Matter
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Author : Roger Elkin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
No Laughing Matter written by Roger Elkin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Poetry categories.
In this, his seventh collection, Roger Elkin demonstrates the linguistic flair, originality and attention to crafting that have typified his other collecitons. No Laughing Matter displays the transformative skill of one who can take the ordinary and reveal the extraordinary.