Book : Vacationland True Stories From Painful Beaches -...

-Titulo Original : Vacationland True Stories From Painful Beaches

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Penguin Books

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“I love everything about this hilarious book except the font size.” -Jon StewartAlthough his career as a bestselling author and on The Daily Show With Jon Stewart was founded on fake news and invented facts, in 2016 that routine didn’t seem as funny to John Hodgman anymore. Everyone is doing it now. Disarmed of falsehood, he was left only with the awful truth: John Hodgman is an older white male monster with bad facial hair, wandering like a privileged Sasquatch through three wildernesses: the hills of Western Massachusetts where he spent much of his youth; the painful beaches of Maine that want to kill him (and some day will); and the metaphoric haunted forest of middle age that connects them. Vacationland collects these real life wanderings, and through them you learn of the horror of freshwater clams, the evolutionary purpose of the mustache, and which animals to keep as pets and which to kill with traps and poison. There is also some advice on how to react when the people of coastal Maine try to sacrifice you to their strange god. Though wildly, Hodgmaniacally funny as usual, it is also a poignant and sincere account of one human facing his forties, those years when men in particular must stop pretending to be the children of bright potential they were and settle into the failing bodies of the wiser, weird dads that they are. Review Winner of the New England Book AwardFinalist for the Thurber Prize for American Humor“I love everything about this hilarious book except the font size . . . can a fella get a 16 point Helvetica up in this thing.”-Jon Stewart“Subtle and profound . . . A strange and very funny book-one that makes comedy out of the anxieties and indignities of middle age.”-The Atlantic“Achingly funny . . . Sharp, silly, and sensitive, Vacationland is a literary selfie of a concerned citizen storyteller-one in which the oldest slice of the United States does a little inelegant photobombing.”-NPR“Very funny . . . Setting it down, you’re left with the sense that you’ve just finished a long, pleasant trip into the author’s mind. As far as travel destinations go, it’s a welcome one, a warm harbor against cold winds.”-The AV Club“Laugh-out-loud funny.” -Buzzfeed“An ambitious departure from Hodgman’s previous authorial endeavors. It’s funny, but it’s no joke. The book is a cleverly composed meditation on one privileged American’s life-and, glancingly, on America-at a crucial moment for both.”-Chicago Tribune“Wholly profound . . . Deeply poignant . . . Vacationland presents a world worth sinking into.”-Entertainment Weekly“Reading the book is a particular pleasure . . . Hodgman has a gift for capturing the modes and mores of New England in a way that is wry and true.”-Los Angeles Times “Brilliant . . . the funniest book we’ve read since David Sedaris’s Theft by Finding: Diaries. You’re gonna love it.” -Hello Giggles“Equal parts funny and sincere . . . A thoughtful and insightful glimpse inside the mind of one of the funniest writers today.”-Bustle“It’s just as funny as his previous books; it’s better than all of them.” -Portland Mercury“A treasure . . . [Vacationland] isn’t just funny . . . it’s also sneaky as hell.” -Boing Boing“Outside of these pages, you will not find a more tender irony, a gentler wickedness, a more perfect tone, a regard more unflinching and forgiving. At some point, long after I gave up resisting the near-constant impulse to laugh out loud, I came to the realization that with Vacationland, Hodgman has established himself as a memoirist and, unquestionably, a master prose stylist, of rare power and restraint.” -Michael Chabon“‘West of Arkham the hills rise wild, and there are valleys with deep woods that no axe has ever cut. There are dark narrow glens where the trees slope fantastically, and where thin brooklets trickle without ever having caught the glint of sunlight,’ H.P. Lovecraft wrote. He was talking about western Massachusetts. And we all know about M