{"product_id":"treehab-bob-smith-9780299310509","title":"Treehab: Tales from My Natural, Wild Life","description":"In this bitingly funny and often surprising memoir, award-winning author and groundbreaking comedian Bob Smith offers a meditation on the vitality of the natural world--and an intimate portrait of his own darkly humorous and profoundly authentic response to a life-changing illness. \u003cbr\u003e In \u003ci\u003eTreehab\u003c\/i\u003e--named after a retreat cabin in rural Ontario--Smith muses how he has \"always sought the path less traveled.\" He rebuffs his diagnosis of ALS as only an unflappable stand-up comic could (\"Lou Gehrig's Disease? But I don't even like baseball!\") and explores his complex, fulfilling experience of fatherhood, both before and after the onset of the disease. \u003cbr\u003e Stories of his writing and performing life--punctuated by hilariously cutting jokes that comedians tell only to each other--are interspersed with tales of Smith's enduring relationship with nature: boyhood sojourns in the woods of upstate New York and adult explorations of the remote Alaskan wilderness; snakes and turtles, rocks and minerals; open sky and forest canopy; God and friendship--all recurring touchstones that inspire him to fight for his survival and for the future of his two children. \u003cbr\u003e Aiming his potent, unflinching wit at global warming, equal rights, sex, dogs, Thoreau, and more, Smith demonstrates here the inimitable insight that has made him a beloved voice of a generation. He reminds us that life is perplexing, beautiful, strange, and entirely worth celebrating.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Bob Smith\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0299310507\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780299310509\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Wisconsin Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/27\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.80w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/0001\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/30\/2016","brand":"Bob Smith","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43913580478719,"sku":"9780299310509","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_ee29252f-1213-4925-b529-9ea00ae8ab6f.jpg?v=1680621174","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/treehab-bob-smith-9780299310509","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}