Little Weirds

'Full of original observations and unexpected laughs' MINDY KALING

'Beautiful, hilarious, genuine' VANITY FAIR

To see the world through Jenny Slate's 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 (don't 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-categorise debut, Slate channels the pain and beauty of life in writing so fresh, so new, and so burstingly alive that we catch her vision like a fever and bring it back out into the bright day with us, and everything has changed.

'You'll finish it feeling like Jenny Slate is your new best friend' SUSAN ORLEAN

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About the author

Jenny Slate is an actress, stand-up comedian, and the New York Times bestselling author of the children's book Marcel The Shell with Shoes On. She has been in many movies and TV shows and also plays many cartoon animals. Jenny is a graduate of Columbia University and has a young heart and an antique soul. She lives in a 100-year-old house in the bizarre and fun city Los Angeles, where nobody ever gets old at all.

Summary

An essay collection from actor and stand-up comedian, Jenny Slate

Foreword

An essay collection from actor and stand-up comedian, Jenny Slate

Additional text

Little Weirds is a fairy tale, one where the prince is never all charming, where your home is never quite safe, and where you probably won't live happily ever after. But you will live, and it's pretty incredible just to do that

Product details

• Authors: Jenny Slate
• Publisher: Fleet
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.11.2020
• EAN: 9780349726427
• ISBN: 978-0-349-72642-7
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 200 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Humor, Anthologien (nicht Lyrik), BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts, Amerikanische Belletristik / Essay, Feuilleton, Reportage, HUMOR / Form / Essays, Englische Bücher / Belletristik / Essay, HUMOR / Topic / Relationships, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Women Authors, HUMOR / Topic / Men, Women & Relationships, Literary essays