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Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant brilliant brilliant : essays / Joel Golby.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Anchor Books, a divison of Penguin Random House LLC, 2019Copyright date: ©2019Description: xvii, 282 pages ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780525562771
  • 052556277X
Uniform titles:
  • Essays. Selections
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Preface: hello, America! -- Things you only know if both your parents are dead -- The murderer who came to tea -- Twitch.TV -- Ribs -- List of fears, a list -- Adult size large -- Stories from the middle of the desert -- Swoosh -- P.C.M. -- Hot sauce capitalism -- A can of lager and a three-course meal -- That time I invented sitting down -- I have the monopoly -- Hallowe'en '96 -- I will never be as tough as pitbull -- The tao of dog piss -- Why 'Rocky IV' is the greatest ever Rocky Film and therefore by extension the greatest film in history, an imaginary TED talk -- Eyemask, a review -- I went to Barcelona and all I got was this handjob from a sex robot -- Hey: am I a leather jacket guy? -- All the fights I've lost -- At home, in the rain -- Moustache rider -- Running alongside the wagon.
Summary: "A collection of essays by the popular Vice contributor"-- Provided by publisher.
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Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 824.92 G617 Available 33111009134483
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

*National Bestseller*

"This is a funny and beautiful book. What a little bastard." --Russell Brand
"Every paragraph is like doing a shot with a friend. A double." --Caitlin Moran

Joel Golby's writing for Vice and The Guardian, with its wry observation and naked self-reflection, has brought him a wide and devoted following. Now, in his first book, he presents a blistering collection of new and newly expanded essays--including the achingly funny viral hit "Things You Only Know When Both Your Parents Are Dead." In these pages, he travels to Saudi Arabia, where he acts as a perplexed bystander at a camel pageant; offers a survival guide for the modern dinner party (i.e. how to tactfully escape at the first sign of an adult board game); and gets pitted head-to-head, again and again, with an unpredictable, unpitying subspecies of Londoner: the landlord.

Through it all, he shows that no matter how cruel the misfortune, how absurd the circumstance, there's always the soft punch of a lesson tucked within. This is a book for anyone who overshares, overthinks, has ever felt lost or confused--and who wants to have a good laugh about it.

Preface: hello, America! -- Things you only know if both your parents are dead -- The murderer who came to tea -- Twitch.TV -- Ribs -- List of fears, a list -- Adult size large -- Stories from the middle of the desert -- Swoosh -- P.C.M. -- Hot sauce capitalism -- A can of lager and a three-course meal -- That time I invented sitting down -- I have the monopoly -- Hallowe'en '96 -- I will never be as tough as pitbull -- The tao of dog piss -- Why 'Rocky IV' is the greatest ever Rocky Film and therefore by extension the greatest film in history, an imaginary TED talk -- Eyemask, a review -- I went to Barcelona and all I got was this handjob from a sex robot -- Hey: am I a leather jacket guy? -- All the fights I've lost -- At home, in the rain -- Moustache rider -- Running alongside the wagon.

"A collection of essays by the popular Vice contributor"-- Provided by publisher.

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