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Treehab: Tales from My Natural, Wild Life (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780299310509)
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xIn 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.
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.
Author: Bob Smith
ISBN-10: 0299310507
ISBN-13: 9780299310509
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Language: English
Published: 09/27/2016
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.80w x 0.90d
Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 01/01/0001
Kirkus Reviews 08/01/2016
Shelf Awareness 09/30/2016
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.
Author: Bob Smith
ISBN-10: 0299310507
ISBN-13: 9780299310509
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Language: English
Published: 09/27/2016
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.80w x 0.90d
Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 01/01/0001
Kirkus Reviews 08/01/2016
Shelf Awareness 09/30/2016
By Bob Smith
xBob Smith has won multiple honors for his memoirs Openly Bob and Way to Go, Smith and his novels Selfish and Perverse and Remembrance of Things I Forgot. He was the first openly gay comedian to appear on The Tonight Show and among the first to be given his own HBO comedy special. He lives in New York City.
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