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The Material

Inglese · Copertina rigida

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Can comedy be taught? Someone, at some point, seemed to think so. The teachers and students at the Chicago Stand-Up school all know how to make people laugh - in theory. They know the line between sharp and cruel, that sad becomes funny at the right angle, and that any moment of your life is a punchline waiting to happen. They''re all afraid of that. Artie may be too handsome for stand-up, Olivia reluctant to examine her own life, and Phil afraid to cause harm. Kruger concentrates more on commanding his father''s respect than his students'', Ashbee is too detached. And then we have Dorothy - the only woman on the faculty - who, though preparing to launch a comeback tour, can''t tell whether she''s too abiding, ambitious, or ambivalent. Will the arrival of visiting professor - the freshly cancelled comedian, Manny Reinhardt - help or harm their cause? Riffing keenly across an array of perspectives, The Material examines life through the eyes of a band of outsiders bound together by whatever it is about themselves that makes them so desperate to make others laugh.

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Autori Camille Bordas
Editore Serpent's Tail
 
Lingue Inglese
Formato Copertina rigida
Pubblicazione 18.07.2024
 
EAN 9781805220060
ISBN 978-1-80522-006-0
Pagine 288
Dimensioni 140 mm x 216 mm x 38 mm
Categorie Narrativa > Romanzi

FICTION / Humorous / General, FICTION / Literary, Humorous fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary

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