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Riding the elephant : a memoir of altercations, humiliations, hallucinations, and observations / Craig Ferguson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, New York : Blue Rider Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2019]Description: xi, 267 pages : 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780525533917
  • 0525533915
Uniform titles:
  • Essays. Selections
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Riding the elephant -- Mad nomad -- Out, damned spot -- Dulce et decorum est -- An education of sorts -- Swim Davie -- The festival -- A right song and dance -- Down under -- The helpers -- Four queens -- Four kings -- Love and bullshit -- 2008 -- Learning to fly -- Therapy -- Resentment -- A marked man -- Japanese bar mitzvah -- Morning at LAX -- Draining the swamp -- Millport -- Margaret.
Summary: "From the comedian, actor, and former host of The Late Late Show comes an irreverent, lyrical memoir in essays featuring his signature wit."--Publisher's description.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library Biography Ferguson C. F352 Available 33111009157070
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

In Riding the Elephant, Craig regales readers with new essays, rendered in the voice fans have come to love. In lyrical prose that is at once hilarious and unexpectedly moving, he discusses his deep love for his native Glasgow, the psychological changes of fatherhood, and looks at ageing and mortality with a perspective that he was incapable of as a younger man. Each story is strung together in a colourful tapestry that ultimately reveals a complicated man and the personal progress he s made. For fans of Craig, comedy, and inventive storytelling, Riding the Elephant is a must-read memoir.

Riding the elephant -- Mad nomad -- Out, damned spot -- Dulce et decorum est -- An education of sorts -- Swim Davie -- The festival -- A right song and dance -- Down under -- The helpers -- Four queens -- Four kings -- Love and bullshit -- 2008 -- Learning to fly -- Therapy -- Resentment -- A marked man -- Japanese bar mitzvah -- Morning at LAX -- Draining the swamp -- Millport -- Margaret.

"From the comedian, actor, and former host of The Late Late Show comes an irreverent, lyrical memoir in essays featuring his signature wit."--Publisher's description.

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