Book : Little Weirds - Slate, Jenny

-Titulo Original : Little Weirds

-Fabricante :

Back Bay Books

-Descripcion Original:

Step into Jenny Slates wild imagination in this magical (Mindy Kaling), delicious (Amy Sedaris), and poignant (John Mulaney) New York Times bestseller about love, heartbreak, and being alive -- this book is something new and wonderful (George Saunders). You may know Jenny Slate from her Netflix special, Stage Fright, as the creator of Marcel the Shell, or as the star of Obvious Child. But you dont really know Jenny Slate until you get bonked on the head by her absolutely singular writing style. To see the world through Jennys eyes is to see it as though for the first time, shimmering with strangeness and possibility. As she will remind you, we live on an ancient ball that rotates around a bigger ball made up of lights and gasses that are science gasses, not farts (dont be immature). Heartbreak, confusion, and misogyny stalk this blue-green sphere, yes, but it is also a place of wild delight and unconstrained vitality, a place where we can start living as soon as we are born, and we can be born at any time. In her dazzling, impossible-to-categorize debut, Jenny channels the pain and beauty of life in writing so fresh, so new, and so burstingly alive, we catch her vision like a fever and bring it back out into the bright day with us, where everything has changed.One of Vanity Fairs Great Quarantine Reads. Review This book is something new and wonderful--honest, funny, positive, completely original, and inspiring in the very best way: it made me remember I was alive. GEORGE SAUNDERSA man on the 2 Express Train read some of Jenny Slates Little Weirds over my shoulder. What kind of book is this? he asked. The best kind, I replied. JOHN MULANEYThis book is like a stovetop goulash, delicious and varied ingredients, prepared perfectly and excellent with bread...Im sorry, I lost track of the simile. AMY SEDARISLuminous, emotional, lovely, and a little mysterious, this book is something you will savor like a half-remembered, gorgeous dream. Youll finish it feeling like Jenny Slate is your new best friend. SUSAN ORLEAN, author of THE LIBRARY BOOK and THE ORCHID THIEFIndescribable, but eminently readable, the actor-comedians book consists of a carnival of observations, ideas and events that may or may not make up a memoir. Basically, Little Weirds is performance art in high-caliber prose. THE WASHINGTON POSTJennys writing is wide open, tuneful, tender. She sees the world (and feels the world) like a bug might, two antennae poking out from her head like sensory wands. Reading Little Weirds made me feel tipsy. DURGA CHEW-BOSE,author of TOO MUCH AND NOT THE MOODSlate invites us for a glorious swim inside her imagination as she explores romance, heartbreak and self-love in this poetry-memoir-fiction mash-up. Its a work that breaks the mold. PEOPLEAt once warm, heartbreaking, and erotic...a strange, witty, sad journey into the depths of their authors imagination...devastating in their unfiltered honesty, even optimism...showcasing [Slates] singular poetic forms of expression. ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLYA singularly hilarious and horny, but also poignant and tender, collection of writing that beautifully captures Slates inimitable voice, which is one that, once youve heard it, you want to listen to forever. NYLONReading Jenny Slates Little Weirds is like digesting Shakespearean sonnets: Its different enough from ordinary English that it takes your brain a few, very-long sentences to adjust to its sweet, flowery prose. But once youve recalibrated, the actress/comedians book becomes a dreamy dessert for the eyeballs that uses playful language to express deep sentiments about heartbreak, anger, wonder and friendship. USA TODAYA poetic and dreamlike book, a testament to the power of fantasy and language to hit your feelings where facts and pictures cant. . .Slates voice never loses its capacity for strangeness, for finding it in the littlest, weirdest corners. And