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Scrappy little nobody / Anna Kendrick.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Touchstone, 2016Edition: First Touchstone hardcover editionDescription: xxiii, 275 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781501117206 (hardcover)
  • 1501117203 (hardcover)
  • 9781501157493 (trade paper)
  • 1501157493 (trade paper)
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Contents:
My double life -- Origin story -- Jaded old chorus girl -- Hell, thy name is middle school -- Camp -- The Mayor of Squaresville -- Leaving the nest -- A little night music -- Moving to LA -- Boys -- Boys and the terror of being near them -- I guess we're doing this, or How does this scene end? -- He's just not that interesting -- Guys in LA -- Hollywood -- Fashion -- Making movies is a fool's errand -- Twilight -- Big breaks -- Award shows -- Scrappy little nobody -- My Grandmother's funeral -- Fake parties I have planned with the detail of a real party -- Batten down the hatches -- The world's most reluctant adult -- Scrappy little nobody.
Summary: "A collection of whimsical autobiographical essays by the Academy Award-nominated actress and star of Up in the Air recounts memorable milestones from her New England upbringing to the blockbuster films that have made her one of Hollywood's most popular actresses,"--Baker & Taylor.
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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 Biography Kendrick A. K33 Checked out 05/06/2024 33111011232432
Total holds: 1

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

An "honest, effortlessly funny, and alternatively relatable" ( Harper's Bazaar ) collection of autobiographical essays by the Academy Award-nominated actress and star of Up in the Air , Pitch Perfect , and Trolls , " Scrappy Little Nobody lets readers feel like they have spent an afternoon chatting with their closest friend" ( Booklist ).

Even before she made a name for herself on the silver screen starring in films like Pitch Perfect , Up in the Air , Twilig ht , and Into the Woods , Anna Kendrick was unusually small, weird, and "10 percent defiant."

At the ripe age of thirteen, she had already resolved to "keep the crazy inside my head where it belonged. Forever. But here's the thing about crazy: It. Wants. Out." In Scrappy Little Nobody , she invites readers inside her brain, sharing extraordinary and charmingly ordinary stories with candor and winningly wry observations.

With her razor-sharp wit, Anna recounts the absurdities she's experienced on her way to and from the heart of pop culture as only she can--from her unusual path to the performing arts (Vanilla Ice and baggy neon pants may have played a role) to her double life as a middle-school student who also starred on Broadway to her initial "dating experiments" (including only liking boys who didn't like her back) to reviewing a binder full of butt doubles to her struggle to live like an adult woman instead of a perpetual "man-child."

Enter Anna's world and follow her rise from "scrappy little nobody" to somebody who dazzles on the stage, the screen, and now the page--with an electric, singular voice, at once familiar and surprising, sharp and sweet, funny and serious (well, not that serious).

My double life -- Origin story -- Jaded old chorus girl -- Hell, thy name is middle school -- Camp -- The Mayor of Squaresville -- Leaving the nest -- A little night music -- Moving to LA -- Boys -- Boys and the terror of being near them -- I guess we're doing this, or How does this scene end? -- He's just not that interesting -- Guys in LA -- Hollywood -- Fashion -- Making movies is a fool's errand -- Twilight -- Big breaks -- Award shows -- Scrappy little nobody -- My Grandmother's funeral -- Fake parties I have planned with the detail of a real party -- Batten down the hatches -- The world's most reluctant adult -- Scrappy little nobody.

"A collection of whimsical autobiographical essays by the Academy Award-nominated actress and star of Up in the Air recounts memorable milestones from her New England upbringing to the blockbuster films that have made her one of Hollywood's most popular actresses,"--Baker & Taylor.

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