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Características del artículo
- Estado
- Como nuevo
- Notas del vendedor
- “Pre-owned in good condition.”
- Country of Origin
- United States
- Signed By
- Paula Poundstone
- Era
- 2010s
- Signed
- Yes
- Ex Libris
- No
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Personalized
- Yes
- Features
- Dust Jacket
- Original Language
- English
- Intended Audience
- Adults
- Inscribed
- Yes
- Vintage
- No
- ISBN
- 9781616204167
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
ISBN-10
1616204168
ISBN-13
9781616204167
eBay Product ID (ePID)
227773163
Product Key Features
Book Title
Totally Unscientific Study of the Search for Human Happiness
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Personal Growth / Happiness, General, Entertainment & Performing Arts, Form / Essays
Publication Year
2017
Genre
Self-Help, Biography & Autobiography, Humor
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
19.2 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2016-042921
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
" The Totally Unscientific Study of the Search for Human Happiness is a remarkable journey. I laughed. I cried. I got another cat." -- Lily Tomlin "The bravest and best improv comic of our time has now done the impossible and created a Work of Literature that has the wild hairy spirit of performance about it . . . The whole family comes in for the price of one ticket and there is not a bad seat in the house." -- Garrison Keillor "Paula Poundstone deserves to be happy. Nobody deserves to be this funny." -- Roy Blount Jr. "Paula Poundstone is the funniest human being I have ever known. Everything she does, thinks, or says is hilarious. She is made of funny. If you chopped her into bits, each piece would be hilarious. (But don't.) Air becomes funny having been breathed by her. So, thus and naturally, this book is hilarious. Even the punctuation is a scream. Buy it." -- Peter Sagal, host of Wait, Wait . . . Don't Tell Me! and author of The Book of Vice "Reading Paula Poundstone's The Totally Unscientific Study of the Search for Human Happiness , I laughed until I got fit, wired, earthy, organized, you name it. I'm happy now. I've discovered that the secret to happiness is to let Paula do all these things while I read her hilarious book about it." -- P. J. O'Rourke "Paula Poundstone never disappoints with her stand up, and now she has written an informative and highly entertaining book which deserves to be read and discussed . . . and I highly recommend that it is." -- Carl Reiner "Did someone finally do it? Did Paula Poundstone discover the secret to human happiness? I don't want to give away the ending, but she did make me laugh a LOT and even shed some tears. Read this book!" -- Pete Docter, screenwriter and director of Inside Out "My God, this is a funny book! Bright shafts of the incomparable Poundstone wit come at you from every page." -- Dick Cavett, New York Times columnist and author of Brief Encounters
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Dewey Decimal
792.76028092
Synopsis
"A remarkable journey. I laughed. I cried. I got another cat." --Lily Tomlin "Paula Poundstone is the funniest human being I have ever known." --Peter Sagal, host of Wait Wait . . . Don't Tell Me and author of The Book of Vice "Is there a secret to happiness?" asks comedian Paula Poundstone. "I don't know how or why anyone would keep it a secret. It seems rather cruel, really . . . Where could it be? Is it deceptively simple? Does it melt at a certain temperature? Can you buy it? Must you suffer for it before or after?" In her wildly and wisely observed book, the comedy legend takes on that most inalienable of rights--the pursuit of happiness. Offering herself up as a human guinea pig in a series of thoroughly unscientific experiments, Poundstone tries out a different get-happy hypothesis in each chapter of her data-driven search. She gets in shape with taekwondo. She drives fast behind the wheel of a Lamborghini. She communes with nature while camping with her daughter, and commits to getting her house organized (twice ). Swing dancing? Meditation? Volunteering? Does any of it bring her happiness? You may be laughing too hard to care. The Totally Unscientific Study of the Search for Human Happiness is both a story of jumping into new experiences with both feet and a surprisingly poignant tale of a single working mother of three children (not to mention dozens of cats, a dog, a bearded dragon lizard, a lop-eared bunny, and one ant left from her ant farm) who is just trying to keep smiling while living a busy life. The queen of the skepticism-fueled rant, Paula Poundstone stands alone in her talent for bursting bubbles and slaying sacred cows. Like George Carlin, Steve Martin, and David Sedaris, she is a master of her craft, and her comedic brilliance is served up in abundance in this book. As author and humorist Roy Blount Jr. notes, "Paula Poundstone deserves to be happy. Nobody deserves to be this funny.", "A remarkable journey. I laughed. I cried. I got another cat." --Lily Tomlin "Paula Poundstone is the funniest human being I have ever known." --Peter Sagal, host of Wait Wait . . . Don't Tell Me! and author of The Book of Vice "Is there a secret to happiness?" asks comedian Paula Poundstone. "I don't know how or why anyone would keep it a secret. It seems rather cruel, really . . . Where could it be? Is it deceptively simple? Does it melt at a certain temperature? Can you buy it? Must you suffer for it before or after?" In her wildly and wisely observed book, the comedy legend takes on that most inalienable of rights--the pursuit of happiness. Offering herself up as a human guinea pig in a series of thoroughly unscientific experiments, Poundstone tries out a different get-happy hypothesis in each chapter of her data-driven search. She gets in shape with taekwondo. She drives fast behind the wheel of a Lamborghini. She communes with nature while camping with her daughter, and commits to getting her house organized (twice!). Swing dancing? Meditation? Volunteering? Does any of it bring her happiness? You may be laughing too hard to care. The Totally Unscientific Study of the Search for Human Happiness is both a story of jumping into new experiences with both feet and a surprisingly poignant tale of a single working mother of three children (not to mention dozens of cats, a dog, a bearded dragon lizard, a lop-eared bunny, and one ant left from her ant farm) who is just trying to keep smiling while living a busy life. The queen of the skepticism-fueled rant, Paula Poundstone stands alone in her talent for bursting bubbles and slaying sacred cows. Like George Carlin, Steve Martin, and David Sedaris, she is a master of her craft, and her comedic brilliance is served up in abundance in this book. As author and humorist Roy Blount Jr. notes, "Paula Poundstone deserves to be happy. Nobody deserves to be this funny."
LC Classification Number
PN2287.P573A3 2017
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