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Brilliant, Brilliant, Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant: Essays (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780525562771)
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x*National Bestseller*
"This is a funny and beautiful book. What a little bastard." --Russell Brand
"Every paragraph is like doing a shot with a friend. A double." --Caitlin Moran Joel Golby's writing for Vice and The Guardian, with its wry observation and naked self-reflection, has brought him a wide and devoted following. Now, in his first book, he presents a blistering collection of new and newly expanded essays--including the achingly funny viral hit "Things You Only Know When Both Your Parents Are Dead." In these pages, he travels to Saudi Arabia, where he acts as a perplexed bystander at a camel pageant; offers a survival guide for the modern dinner party (i.e. how to tactfully escape at the first sign of an adult board game); and gets pitted head-to-head, again and again, with an unpredictable, unpitying subspecies of Londoner: the landlord. Through it all, he shows that no matter how cruel the misfortune, how absurd the circumstance, there's always the soft punch of a lesson tucked within. This is a book for anyone who overshares, overthinks, has ever felt lost or confused--and who wants to have a good laugh about it.
Author: Joel Golby
ISBN-10: 052556277X
ISBN-13: 9780525562771
Publisher: Anchor Books
Language: English
Published: 03/05/2019
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.70d
Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 01/15/2019
Publishers Weekly 11/26/2018
Booklist 02/15/2019 pg. 11
"This is a funny and beautiful book. What a little bastard." --Russell Brand
"Every paragraph is like doing a shot with a friend. A double." --Caitlin Moran Joel Golby's writing for Vice and The Guardian, with its wry observation and naked self-reflection, has brought him a wide and devoted following. Now, in his first book, he presents a blistering collection of new and newly expanded essays--including the achingly funny viral hit "Things You Only Know When Both Your Parents Are Dead." In these pages, he travels to Saudi Arabia, where he acts as a perplexed bystander at a camel pageant; offers a survival guide for the modern dinner party (i.e. how to tactfully escape at the first sign of an adult board game); and gets pitted head-to-head, again and again, with an unpredictable, unpitying subspecies of Londoner: the landlord. Through it all, he shows that no matter how cruel the misfortune, how absurd the circumstance, there's always the soft punch of a lesson tucked within. This is a book for anyone who overshares, overthinks, has ever felt lost or confused--and who wants to have a good laugh about it.
Author: Joel Golby
ISBN-10: 052556277X
ISBN-13: 9780525562771
Publisher: Anchor Books
Language: English
Published: 03/05/2019
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.70d
Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 01/15/2019
Publishers Weekly 11/26/2018
Booklist 02/15/2019 pg. 11
By Joel Golby
xJoel Golby is a staff writer for Vice, where he is among the site's most read contributors. He has written for The Guardian, Shortlist, and the BBC. He's more of a cat than a dog man, but he see merits in both. He lives in London.
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