Little Weirds by Jenny Slate (English) Compact Disc Book

Description: Little Weirds by Jenny Slate A collection of essays that look inside the mind of Jenny Slate, filled with stories of a French-kissing rabbit, a haunted house, electromagnetic energy fields, emotional horniness, and more. FORMAT Compact Disc LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Step into Jenny Slates wild imagination in this "magical" (Mindy Kaling), "delicious" (Amy Sedaris), and "poignant" (John Mulaney) New York Times bestseller about love, heartbreak, and being alive -- "this book is something new and wonderful" (George Saunders). You may "know" Jenny Slate from her Netflix special, Stage Fright, as the creator of Marcel the Shell, or as the star of "Obvious Child." But you dont really know Jenny Slate until you get bonked on the head by her absolutely singular writing style. To see the world through Jennys eyes is to see it as though for the first time, shimmering with strangeness and possibility. As she will remind you, we live on an ancient ball that rotates around a bigger ball made up of lights and gasses that are science gasses, not farts (dont be immature). Heartbreak, confusion, and misogyny stalk this blue-green sphere, yes, but it is also a place of wild delight and unconstrained vitality, a place where we can start living as soon as we are born, and we can be born at any time. In her dazzling, impossible-to-categorize debut, Jenny channels the pain and beauty of life in writing so fresh, so new, and so burstingly alive, we catch her vision like a fever and bring it back out into the bright day with us, where everything has changed.One of Vanity Fairs Great Quarantine Reads. Author Biography Jenny Slate is an actress, stand-up comedian, and the New York Times bestselling author of the childrens book Marcel The Shell with Shoes On. She has been in many movies and TV shows and also plays many cartoon animals. Jenny is a graduate of Columbia University and has a young heart and an antique soul. She lives in a 100-year-old house in the bizarre and fun city Los Angeles, where nobody ever gets old at all. Jenny Slate is an actress, stand-up comedian, and the New York Times bestselling author of the childrens book Marcel The Shell with Shoes On. She has been in many movies and TV shows and also plays many cartoon animals. Jenny is a graduate of Columbia University and has a young heart and an antique soul. She lives in a 100-year-old house in the bizarre and fun city Los Angeles, where nobody ever gets old at all. Review "Little Weirds explores the oddities-and magic-of everyday life...Less an essay collection and more a map of her brain...Little Weirds chattily chronicles Slates highs and lows and dips and swoops as if the actress is absorbing sunshine through an I.V.-- "MARIE CLAIRE""Little Weirds is full of soft and lovely moments... Slate beautifully evokes the pleasures of female friendship.-- "NPR.ORG""Little Weirds isnt the typical comedians memoir, but its the rare work of art thats somehow both delightfully bizarre and totally universal.-- "BUST MAGAZINE""Invites readers to pay an extended visit, one that will leave them enlightened, moved, and sometimes pleasantly puzzled."-- "Shelf Awareness""Slate meditates on topics profound and ephemeral with wonder and stark honesty."-- "Publishers Weekly""Slates rhythmic, idiosyncratic delivery somehow soothes and dazzles in equal measure. This makes for an audiobook experience that youll want to return to again and again."-- "Paste (audio review)"A man on the 2 Express Train read some of Jenny Slates Little Weirds over my shoulder. What kind of book is this? he asked. The best kind, I replied.-- "JOHN MULANEY"Every so often, someone will decide to stray from the outline and gift us with something so unexpected that it may not tickle our funny bone but it might tickle us pink. Jenny Slates nonfiction collection Little Weirds is one such book. Its an extremely personal narrative, and there are elements of humor in it, but that may be all it has in common with the efforts of her peers. . . A collection that relies so heavily on whimsy shouldnt be this effective, but the emotions in it are so raw that delving into her words creates an intimate connection to the work.-- "AV CLUB"If you hadnt previously been aware of Slates dexterity as a storyteller, [Little Weirds] will be your awakening...The thing about Jenny Slate is that her warmth doesnt just come from her openness. It also comes from her ability to say, with her whole chest, something others would keep hushed away. Its why shes the receptacle of the stories people are normally too embarrassed to tell. When someone articulates so clearly her own hopes and worries and small shames, it feels like an opening to share your own in return.-- "IN STYLE"Indescribable, but eminently readable, the actor-comedians book consists of a carnival of observations, ideas and events that may or may not make up a memoir. Basically, Little Weirds is performance art in high-caliber prose.-- "THE WASHINGTON POST"Jenny Slate is a little weird (in a very good way). Her aptly named collection of personal essays, Little Weirds, gives readers a glimpse into her strangely funny and tender, magically delicious mind...Slates writing style is deeply personal, yet her prose is crisp to the taste.-- "AMAZON, Editors Choice"Jennys writing is wide open, tuneful, tender. She sees the world (and feels the world) like a bug might, two antennae poking out from her head like sensory wands. Reading Little Weirds made me feel tipsy.-- "DURGA CHEW-BOSE, author of TOO MUCH AND NOT THE MOOD"Reading Jenny Slates Little Weirds is like digesting Shakespearean sonnets: Its different enough from ordinary English that it takes your brain a few, very-long sentences to adjust to its sweet, flowery prose. But once youve recalibrated, the actress/comedians book becomes a dreamy dessert for the eyeballs that uses playful language to express deep sentiments about heartbreak, anger, wonder and friendship.-- "USA TODAY"She can act! She can do stand-up! And yes: Jenny Slate can write, too. Slate gets vulnerable in Little Weirds, a memoir that touches on her first marriage, her post-election anxiety, and new beginnings.-- "REFINERY29""This debut essay collection...are well worth your time--a lovely glimpse into the mind of a truly great creative force."-- "BookPage""Slate...brings her brand of whimsy and bracing honesty to a bizarre nonfiction narrative collection, touching on her childhood, growing up in a haunted house and divorce."-- "USA Today""A tender and twee not-exactly memoir. The comedian...wraps her themes in ethereal layers of whimsy, fantasizing throughout...The party trick isnt for everyone, but fans and gossip mongers are bound to have fun."-- "Vogue" Review Quote "This debut essay collection by actress and comedian Jenny Slate is exactlyas the title promises: weird. If youve seen her in Parks and Rec or on SNL ,these short bursts of surreal, surprisingly lyrical thought might surprise you.But they are well worth your time--a lovely glimpse into the mind of a trulygreat creative force." Details ISBN1549102710 Author Jenny Slate Language English Year 2019 ISBN-10 1549102710 ISBN-13 9781549102714 Format Compact Disc Publication Date 2019-11-05 Playing time 260 Publisher Little Brown and Company Imprint Little Brown and Company Edition Description Library Edition Narrator Jenny Slate DEWEY B Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:158516789;

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