Attempting Normal
$30.90
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
15 April 2014
Summary
An acclaimed national bestseller in hardcover, here is the wildly funny, heartbreaking, and surprisingly wise story of one of the greatest comedians of his generation
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
Marc Maron is “a master of spinning humor out of anguish” (Bookforum), even when that anguish is pretty clearly self-inflicted. In Attempting Normal, he threads together twenty-five stories from his life and near-death, from his first comedy road trips (with a fugitive junkie comic wi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780812982787 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0812982789 |
| Author: | Marc Maron |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Spiegel & Grau |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 15 April 2014 |
| Weight: | 198g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 132mm x 17mm |
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Critics Review
Praise for Marc Maron and WTF
Praise for Attempting Normal
“I laughed so hard reading this book.”—David Sedaris
“Funny … surprisingly deep … laced with revelatory insights.”—Los Angeles Times
“Superb … A reason that [it] is a superior example of an overcrowded genre—the comedian memoir—is Mr. Maron’s hardheaded approach to his history, the wisdom of experience.”—The New York Times
“Marc Maron is a legend because he is both a great comic and a brilliant mind. Attempting Normal is a deep, hilarious megashot of feeling and truth as only this man can administer.”—Sam Lipsyte
Praise for Marc Maron and WTF
“The stuff of comedy legend.”—Rolling Stone
“Marc Maron is a startlingly honest, compelling, and hilarious comedian-poet. Truly one of the greatest of all time.”—Louis C.K.
“I’ve known Marc for years and I can tell you first hand that he’s passionate, fearless, honest, self-absorbed, neurotic, and screamingly funny.”—David Cross
“Revered among his peers … raw and unflinchingly honest.”—Entertainment Weekly
“Devastatingly funny.”—Los Angeles Times
“For a comedy nerd, this show is nirvana.”—Judd Apatow
About The Author
Marc Maron
Marc Maron is a stand-up comedian and host of the podcast WTF with Marc Maron. He has appeared in his own comedy specials on Comedy Central, HBO, and Netflix, and his sitcom, Maron, airs on IFC. He lives in Los Angeles.
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