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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
1805220063
ISBN-13
9781805220060
Edition
Main
Publisher
Profile Books Ltd
Imprint
Serpent's Tail
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jul 4th, 2024
Print length
352 Pages
Weight
462 grams
Dimensions
14.40 x 22.40 x 3.30 cms
Product Classification:
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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A literary star ascending makes her UK debut with a novel about the funniest people's saddest stories
''Utterly charming ... Bordas is an invaluable new voice'' George Saunders ''A disquisition into the nature of comedy and creativity. Like the best comedians ... Bordas is alert to the deeper joke'' Sunday Times ''Amusing... impressive'' New York Times ''Marvellously engaging and entertaining ... full of terrific moments and cutting dialogue'' Independent Every comedian knows that there''s a line between sharp and cruel, that sad becomes funny at the right angle, that any moment in life, however painful or triumphant, has the potential to become a punchline. At the Chicago Stand-up School, success is about the material. But maybe Artie is too handsome to be taken seriously on stage, Olivia too scared to examine her past, and Phil too afraid to cause harm. Their teachers are obsessed with failure: Kruger trying to command his father''s respect, Ashbee weary of the way his Blackness attracts a type of white admirer, Dorothy wondering how her talent is connected to her loneliness. Whether a visiting comedian-the famous, controversy-steeped Manny Reinhardt-will do more to help or to harm their cause remains to be seen. Set over the course of a single day, and shifting exquisitely between several points of view, The Material examines life through the eyes of a band of outsiders bound together by the need to laugh, and the desire to make others laugh even harder.
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