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Zusatztext "Shukert is a hugely funny! wildly smart! and menacingly original writer. I don't much care for leaving the house! but if I were ever to travel! I'd want to do it in book form and alongside Rachel! who has one billion crazy stories set in foreign lands! all beautifully told." Informationen zum Autor Rachel Shukert is a playwright, performer, and the author of Have You No Shame? And Other Regrettable Stories . Her writing has appeared in McSweeney's and Heeb , and on Salon , Slate , Gawker , Nerve , and The Daily Beast , as well as featured on National Public Radio and in numerous print anthologies. Shukert was born and raised in Omaha, Nebraska, and now lives in New York City with her husband and her bipolar cat. Klappentext “Shukert's sharp comic turns careen smack into the middle of our hearts." — Los Angeles Times From performer, playwright, comedian, author and writer and producer of "Glow" and "Superirl" Rachel Shukert, Everything Is Going to Be Great, is a hilarious memoir of traveling through Europe in her twenties. Rachel chronicles her youthful navigation through the haphazard fun and debauchery of new freedoms, and the growing pains that ultimately accompany “adulthood.” Fans of Sloane Crosley and David Sedaris are going to love Shulkert’s story, and her sharp, smart humor. One underfunded grand tour. A series of hilariously bad decisions. Women’s Humor: Written with the sharp, smart voice that would later define her work on shows like Glow and Supergirl . Travel Misadventures: From a drunken Bastille Day celebration that ends with a broken nose in a Parisian hospital to a string of terrible jobs and even worse food. Self-Deprecating Humor: A painfully funny and unflinchingly honest look at the humiliation and absurdity of navigating "adulthood" for the first time. European Travelogue: Follow Rachel through Vienna, Amsterdam, and Zurich as she searches for purpose and finds mostly debauchery and awkward sexual encounters. Zusammenfassung “Shukert's sharp comic turns careen smack into the middle of our hearts." — Los Angeles Times From performer, playwright, comedian, author and writer and producer of "Glow" and "Superirl" Rachel Shukert, Everything Is Going to Be Great, is a hilarious memoir of traveling through Europe in her twenties. Rachel chronicles her youthful navigation through the haphazard fun and debauchery of new freedoms, and the growing pains that ultimately accompany “adulthood.” Fans of Sloane Crosley and David Sedaris are going to love Shulkert’s story, and her sharp, smart humor. One underfunded grand tour. A series of hilariously bad decisions. Women’s Humor: Written with the sharp, smart voice that would later define her work on shows like Glow and Supergirl . Travel Misadventures: From a drunken Bastille Day celebration that ends with a broken nose in a Parisian hospital to a string of terrible jobs and even worse food. Self-Deprecating Humor: A painfully funny and unflinchingly honest look at the humiliation and absurdity of navigating "adulthood" for the first time. European Travelogue: Follow Rachel through Vienna, Amsterdam, and Zurich as she searches for purpose and finds mostly debauchery and awkward sexual encounters. ...
