{"product_id":"stand-up-barry-goldman-dave-cohen-9781068509520","title":"Stand Up, Barry Goldman","description":"\u003cp\u003eAll I'd wanted for as long as I could remember was a woman to love, a soulmate to live with in contentment for the rest of my days: friend, lover, companion, mother to our children. Time was running out: I was getting old. Next year I would be eighteen.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBarry Goldman is a sensitive boy. He's being primed to run the family business but has discovered a talent for making audiences laugh at his silly poems.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt last, he has found something that might make him attractive to girls - in particular, Harriet Fink - but there's not much call for delicate, earnest poets in the 1970s comedy world of hot-panted dolly birds and battle-axe mothers-in-law.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen one night he sees Kris Dean on stage and understands that the world of comedy is about to change forever.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStand Up, Barry Goldman - like Elena Ferrante, but with jokes - is the debut novel of Dave Cohen, stand-up comedian and writer best known as the creator of dozens of songs for multi-BAFTA winning hit TV show Horrible Histories, and less well known as lead singer in the world's first Jewish heavy metal band, Guns'n'Moses\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Dave Cohen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 106850952X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781068509520\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Dave Cohen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/30\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 334\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.72lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.70d","brand":"Dave Cohen","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48852670054655,"sku":"9781068509520","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/stand-up-barry-goldman-dave-cohen-9781068509520","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}