My Booky Wook - A Memoir of Sex, Drugs, and Stand-up

Zusatztext "Hilarious. . . . A richly detailed memoir that's peppered with both evocative descriptions of the author's homeland and memorable lines... Brand promises here another tome 'about how it feels to be famous.' To my shame! I can't wait." Informationen zum Autor Russell Brand is a comedian, journalist, TV and radio presenter, and actor. He has won numerous awards including Time Out ’s Comedian of the Year, Best Newcomer at the British Comedy Awards, Best TV Performer at the Broadcasting Press Guild Awards, and Most Stylish Man at GQ ’s Men of the Year Awards. The first installment of his autobiography, My Booky Wook , was a New York Times bestseller. Klappentext Russell Brand learned early on to make a joke of fear and failure. From a troubled childhood in industrial Essex, England, to his descent into addictions to alcohol, drugs, and sex in the seamy underbelly of London, Brand has seen his share of both and miraculously lived to tell the tale. In My Booky Wook he leads readers on a rollicking journey through his disastrous school career, his infamous antics on MTV, and his multifarious sexual adventures. But this irreverent memoir is a story not simply of struggle but also of redemption, a testament to the difficulty of discovering what you want from life and the remarkable power of a bloody-minded determination to get it. My Booky Wook is a giddy trip through the brilliant mind of one of Britain's most valuable exports. Zusammenfassung “A child’s garden of vices! My Booky Wook is also a relentless ride with a comic mind clearly at the wheel.... The bloke can write. He rhapsodizes about heroin better than anyone since Jim Carroll. With the flick of his enviable pen! he can summarize childhood thus: ‘My very first utterance in life was not a single word! but a sentence. It was! ‘Don’t do that.’... Russell Brand has a compelling story." — New York Times Book Review The gleeful and candid New York Times bestselling autobiography of addiction! recovery! and rise to fame from Russell Brand! star of Forgetting Sarah Marshall and one of the biggest personalities in comedy today. ...

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A child's garden of vices, My Booky Wook is also a relentless ride with a comic mind clearly at the wheel. . . . The bloke can write. He rhapsodizes about heroin better than anyone since Jim Carroll. . . . Compelling. New York Times Book Review

Product details

• Authors: Russell Brand
• Publisher: It Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 18.05.2010
• EAN: 9780061857805
• ISBN: 978-0-06-185780-5
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 232 mm x 27 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Music, Biography: general, Television, Memoirs, Theatre Studies, Performing arts: comedy, Comedy and stand-up, Musicians, singers, bands and groups, Gender studies: women and girls, Composers and songwriters, Biography: arts and entertainment, Digital, video and new media arts, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Personal Memoirs, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Entertainment & Performing Arts, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Women, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Music, PERFORMING ARTS: Theater / General, PERFORMING ARTS: Television / General, MUSIC: Essays, HUMOR: Topic / Adult, ART: Film & Video