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Fiction Ruined My Family par Jeanne Darst (2011, couverture rigide)
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- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
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- Dust Jacket
- Original Language
- English
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- United States
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- 9781594488146
- Book Title
- Fiction Ruined My Family
- Item Length
- 7.8in
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 2011
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.1in
- Genre
- Family & Relationships, Biography & Autobiography, Literary Criticism, Humor
- Topic
- Personal Memoirs, General, Literary, Topic / Marriage & Family, American / General
- Item Width
- 5.7in
- Item Weight
- 15.3 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 320 Pages
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The youngest of four daughters in an old, celebrated St. Louis family of prominent journalists and politicians on one side, debutante balls and equestrian trophies on the other, Jeanne Darst grew up hearing stories of past grandeur. And as a young girl, the message she internalized was clear: while things might be a bit tight for us right now, it's only temporary. Soon her father would sell the Great American Novel and reclaim the family's former glory. The family uproots and moves from St. Louis to New York. Jeanne's father writes one novel, and then another, which don't find publishers. This, combined with her mother's burgeoning alcoholism -- nightly booze- fueled weepathons reminiscing about her fancy childhood -- lead to financial disaster and divorce. And as Jeanne becomes an adult, she is horrified to discover that she is not only a drinker like her mother, but a writer like her father. At first, and for years, she embraces both - living in an apartment with no bathroom, stealing food from her babysitting gigs, and raising rent money by riding the subway topless, or performing her one woman show in her living room. Until gradually, she realizes that this life has not been thrust on her in some handing-down-of-the-writing-mantle-way. She has chosen it; and until she can stop putting drinking and writing ahead of everything else, it's a questionable choice. She writes, "For a long time I was worried about becoming my father. Then I was worried about becoming my mother. Now I was worried about becoming myself." Ultimately, Jeanne sets out to discover if a person can have the writing without the ruin, if it's possible to be both sober and creative, ambitious and happy, a professional author and a parent. Filled with brilliantly flawed, idiosyncratic characters and punctuated by Darst's irreverent eye for absurdity, Fiction Ruined My Family is a lovingly told, wickedly funny portrait of an unconventional life.
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Penguin Publishing Group
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1594488142
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9781594488146
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Book Title
Fiction Ruined My Family
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Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Personal Memoirs, General, Literary, Topic / Marriage & Family, American / General
Publication Year
2011
Genre
Family & Relationships, Biography & Autobiography, Literary Criticism, Humor
Number of Pages
320 Pages
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Item Length
7.8in
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1.1in
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5.7in
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15.3 Oz
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Reviews
" Fiction Ruined My Family had me laughing out loud, which I almost never do, with one jaw-dropping scene after another. On nearly every page there's some sentence that''s so perfect, in an old-school Oscar Wilde/Dorothy Parker sort of way, that it made everything I''ve ever written or said seem like dull, drunken mumbling." Ira Glass, host of This American Life "Jeanne Darst's memoir unfolds like a Eugene O'Neill play, with all the boozing and the weeping and the exclamatory self-pity. Only it's also very funny, and it has a happy ending (more or less). Snap this book up."-Tad Friend, author of Cheerful Money "As Tolstoy might have said if he''d survived the 1970s, happy families are all alike but every narcissistic parent is narcissistic in his or her own way. Jeanne Darst tells a story not only of family neuroses, artistic delusions and thwarted dreams but also of the nuances of social class, the tension between domesticity and bohemenianism, and the tragicomedy that comes from faking it but never quite making it. All my favorite themes! I also laughed out loud more times than I can count."-Meghan Daum, author of My Misspent Youth and Life Would Be Perfect If I Lived In That House "Jeanne Darst is funnier than a blotto WASP in a Lily Pulitzer wheelchair."-Wendy Burden, author of Dead End Gene Pool "In the tradition of the Mitford sisters'' chronicles (but minus Hitler), Fiction Ruined My Family is both a very funny tragedy and a very sad comedy."-Patricia Marx, author of Him Her Him Again and the End of Him "Dazzlingly funny, gut wrenching and infested with writing that will absolutely floor you. Fiction Ruined My Family has ruined me-how will I ever be able to use those adjectives again and mean them as much as I do now?"-Sloane Crosley, author of How Did You Get This Number "Jeanne Darst manages to evoke humor and despair in a single sentence. I found myself rooting so hard for her. Fiction Ruined My Family is a great testament to surviving and overcoming wacky parents. A wonderful book." Julie Klam, author of You Had Me at Woof , "Dazzlingly funny, gut wrenching and infested with writing that will absolutely floor you. Fiction Ruined My Family has ruined me-how will I ever be able to use those adjectives again and mean them as much as I do now?" -Sloane Crosley, author of How Did You Get This Number "In the tradition of the Mitford sisters' chronicles (but minus Hitler), Fiction Ruined My Family is both a very funny tragedy and a very sad comedy." -Patricia Marx, author of Him Her Him Again and the End of Him "Jeanne Darst is funnier than a blotto WASP in a Lily Pulitzer wheelchair." -Wendy Burden, author of Dead End Gene Pool "Jeanne Darst manages to evoke humor and despair in a single sentence. I found myself rooting so hard for her. Fiction Ruined My Family is a great testament to surviving and overcoming wacky parents. A wonderful book." -Julie Klam, author of You Had Me at Woof, "Beautifully paced . . . heartbreaking and hilarious." - USA Today " Fiction Ruined My Family reads like a script for performance art, a rapid stand-up routine, careless and wisecracky, signaling moments for the audience to respond to a punch line by clapping. The tinkle of glasses subsides; the performer makes a grimace, takes a bow, goes on. Yet genuine pain is explored - for the dangerous ambitions of fame and achievement and the really dangerous distractions of carelessness with loved ones." - The San Francisco Chronicle "[A] winningly snarky memoir." - The New York Times "The girl's got flair." - Entertainment Weekly "Jeanne Darst's memoir about growing up in a hard-drinking family with big literary dreams is hilarious, heartbreaking, and inspiring." - Marie Claire "In her memoir Fiction Ruined My Family , Jeanne Darst plunges into the story of her delusional family with wicked wit and fearlessness." - Redbook "High fives to Jeanne Darst for Fiction Ruined My Family , her tale of surviving an alkie blue-blood mom, a hard-drinking failed-writer dad, and her own inebriated performer/playwright/crummy-job dysfunction to write this seriously comic tell-all about her entanglements, with family, friend, and-of course-her bodacious self." - Elle " Fiction Ruined My Family had me laughing out loud, which I almost never do, with one jaw-dropping scene after another. On nearly every page there's some sentence that's so perfect, in an old-school Oscar Wilde/Dorothy Parker sort of way, that it made everything I've ever written or said seem like dull, drunken mumbling." -Ira Glass, host of This American Life "Jeanne Darst's memoir unfolds like a Eugene O'Neill play, with all the boozing and the weeping and the exclamatory self-pity. Only it's also very funny, and it has a happy ending (more or less). Snap this book up." -Tad Friend, author of Cheerful Money "As Tolstoy might have said if he'd survived the 1970s, happy families are all alike but every narcissistic parent is narcissistic in his or her own way. Jeanne Darst tells a story not only of family neuroses, artistic delusions and thwarted dreams but also of the nuances of social class, the tension between domesticity and bohemenianism, and the tragicomedy that comes from faking it but never quite making it. All my favorite themes! I also laughed out loud more times than I can count." -Meghan Daum, author of My Misspent Youth and Life Would Be Perfect If I Lived In That House "Jeanne Darst is funnier than a blotto WASP in a Lily Pulitzer wheelchair." -Wendy Burden, author of Dead End Gene Pool "Dazzlingly funny, gut wrenching and infested with writing that will absolutely floor you. Fiction Ruined My Family has ruined me-how will I ever be able to use those adjectives again and mean them as much as I do now?" -Sloane Crosley, author of How Did You Get This Number "In the tradition of the Mitford sisters' chronicles (but minus Hitler), Fiction Ruined My Family is both a very funny tragedy and a very sad comedy." -Patricia Marx, author of Him Her Him Again and the End of Him "Jeanne Darst is funnier than a blotto WASP in a Lily Pulitzer wheelchair." -Wendy Burden, author of Dead End Gene Pool "Jeanne Darst manages to evoke humor and despair in a single sentence. I found myself rooting so hard for her. Fiction Ruined My Family is a great testament to surviving and overcoming wacky parents. A wonderful book." -Julie Klam, author of You Had Me at Woof, "In her memoir Fiction Ruined My Family , Jeanne Darst plunges into the story of her delusional family with wicked wit and fearlessness." Redbook, "[A] winningly snarky memoir." - The New York Times "The girl's got flair." - Entertainment Weekly "Jeanne Darst's memoir about growing up in a hard-drinking family with big literary dreams is hilarious, heartbreaking, and inspiring." - Marie Claire "In her memoir Fiction Ruined My Family , Jeanne Darst plunges into the story of her delusional family with wicked wit and fearlessness." - Redbook "High fives to Jeanne Darst for Fiction Ruined My Family , her tale of surviving an alkie blue-blood mom, a hard-drinking failed-writer dad, and her own inebriated performer/playwright/crummy-job dysfunction to write this seriously comic tell-all about her entanglements, with family, friend, and-of course-her bodacious self." - Elle " Fiction Ruined My Family had me laughing out loud, which I almost never do, with one jaw-dropping scene after another. On nearly every page there's some sentence that's so perfect, in an old-school Oscar Wilde/Dorothy Parker sort of way, that it made everything I've ever written or said seem like dull, drunken mumbling." -Ira Glass, host of This American Life "Jeanne Darst's memoir unfolds like a Eugene O'Neill play, with all the boozing and the weeping and the exclamatory self-pity. Only it's also very funny, and it has a happy ending (more or less). Snap this book up." -Tad Friend, author of Cheerful Money "As Tolstoy might have said if he'd survived the 1970s, happy families are all alike but every narcissistic parent is narcissistic in his or her own way. Jeanne Darst tells a story not only of family neuroses, artistic delusions and thwarted dreams but also of the nuances of social class, the tension between domesticity and bohemenianism, and the tragicomedy that comes from faking it but never quite making it. All my favorite themes! I also laughed out loud more times than I can count." -Meghan Daum, author of My Misspent Youth and Life Would Be Perfect If I Lived In That House "Jeanne Darst is funnier than a blotto WASP in a Lily Pulitzer wheelchair." -Wendy Burden, author of Dead End Gene Pool "Dazzlingly funny, gut wrenching and infested with writing that will absolutely floor you. Fiction Ruined My Family has ruined me-how will I ever be able to use those adjectives again and mean them as much as I do now?" -Sloane Crosley, author of How Did You Get This Number "In the tradition of the Mitford sisters' chronicles (but minus Hitler), Fiction Ruined My Family is both a very funny tragedy and a very sad comedy." -Patricia Marx, author of Him Her Him Again and the End of Him "Jeanne Darst is funnier than a blotto WASP in a Lily Pulitzer wheelchair." -Wendy Burden, author of Dead End Gene Pool "Jeanne Darst manages to evoke humor and despair in a single sentence. I found myself rooting so hard for her. Fiction Ruined My Family is a great testament to surviving and overcoming wacky parents. A wonderful book." -Julie Klam, author of You Had Me at Woof, "Jeanne Darst's memoir about growing up in a hard-drinking family with big literary dreams is hilarious, heartbreaking, and inspiring." Marie Claire, " Fiction Ruined My Family had me laughing out loud, which I almost never do, with one jaw-dropping scene after another. On nearly every page there's some sentence that's so perfect, in an old-school Oscar Wilde/Dorothy Parker sort of way, that it made everything I've ever written or said seem like dull, drunken mumbling." -Ira Glass, host of This American Life "Jeanne Darst's memoir unfolds like a Eugene O'Neill play, with all the boozing and the weeping and the exclamatory self-pity. Only it's also very funny, and it has a happy ending (more or less). Snap this book up." -Tad Friend, author of Cheerful Money "As Tolstoy might have said if he'd survived the 1970s, happy families are all alike but every narcissistic parent is narcissistic in his or her own way. Jeanne Darst tells a story not only of family neuroses, artistic delusions and thwarted dreams but also of the nuances of social class, the tension between domesticity and bohemenianism, and the tragicomedy that comes from faking it but never quite making it. All my favorite themes! I also laughed out loud more times than I can count." -Meghan Daum, author of My Misspent Youth and Life Would Be Perfect If I Lived In That House "Jeanne Darst is funnier than a blotto WASP in a Lily Pulitzer wheelchair." -Wendy Burden, author of Dead End Gene Pool "Dazzlingly funny, gut wrenching and infested with writing that will absolutely floor you. Fiction Ruined My Family has ruined me-how will I ever be able to use those adjectives again and mean them as much as I do now?" -Sloane Crosley, author of How Did You Get This Number "In the tradition of the Mitford sisters' chronicles (but minus Hitler), Fiction Ruined My Family is both a very funny tragedy and a very sad comedy." -Patricia Marx, author of Him Her Him Again and the End of Him "Jeanne Darst is funnier than a blotto WASP in a Lily Pulitzer wheelchair." -Wendy Burden, author of Dead End Gene Pool "Jeanne Darst manages to evoke humor and despair in a single sentence. I found myself rooting so hard for her. Fiction Ruined My Family is a great testament to surviving and overcoming wacky parents. A wonderful book." -Julie Klam, author of You Had Me at Woof, "Jeanne Darst's memoir about growing up in a hard-drinking family with big literary dreams is hilarious, heartbreaking, and inspiring." - Marie Claire "In her memoir Fiction Ruined My Family , Jeanne Darst plunges into the story of her delusional family with wicked wit and fearlessness." - Redbook "High fives to Jeanne Darst for Fiction Ruined My Family , her tale of surviving an alkie blue-blood mom, a hard-drinking failed-writer dad, and her own inebriated performer/playwright/crummy-job dysfunction to write this seriously comic tell-all about her entanglements, with family, friend, and-of course-her bodacious self." - Elle " Fiction Ruined My Family had me laughing out loud, which I almost never do, with one jaw-dropping scene after another. On nearly every page there's some sentence that's so perfect, in an old-school Oscar Wilde/Dorothy Parker sort of way, that it made everything I've ever written or said seem like dull, drunken mumbling." -Ira Glass, host of This American Life "Jeanne Darst's memoir unfolds like a Eugene O'Neill play, with all the boozing and the weeping and the exclamatory self-pity. Only it's also very funny, and it has a happy ending (more or less). Snap this book up." -Tad Friend, author of Cheerful Money "As Tolstoy might have said if he'd survived the 1970s, happy families are all alike but every narcissistic parent is narcissistic in his or her own way. Jeanne Darst tells a story not only of family neuroses, artistic delusions and thwarted dreams but also of the nuances of social class, the tension between domesticity and bohemenianism, and the tragicomedy that comes from faking it but never quite making it. All my favorite themes! I also laughed out loud more times than I can count." -Meghan Daum, author of My Misspent Youth and Life Would Be Perfect If I Lived In That House "Jeanne Darst is funnier than a blotto WASP in a Lily Pulitzer wheelchair." -Wendy Burden, author of Dead End Gene Pool "Dazzlingly funny, gut wrenching and infested with writing that will absolutely floor you. Fiction Ruined My Family has ruined me-how will I ever be able to use those adjectives again and mean them as much as I do now?" -Sloane Crosley, author of How Did You Get This Number "In the tradition of the Mitford sisters' chronicles (but minus Hitler), Fiction Ruined My Family is both a very funny tragedy and a very sad comedy." -Patricia Marx, author of Him Her Him Again and the End of Him "Jeanne Darst is funnier than a blotto WASP in a Lily Pulitzer wheelchair." -Wendy Burden, author of Dead End Gene Pool "Jeanne Darst manages to evoke humor and despair in a single sentence. I found myself rooting so hard for her. Fiction Ruined My Family is a great testament to surviving and overcoming wacky parents. A wonderful book." -Julie Klam, author of You Had Me at Woof, "Dazzlingly funny, gut wrenching and infested with writing that will absolutely floor you. Fiction Ruined My Family has ruined me-how will I ever be able to use those adjectives again and mean them as much as I do now?" Sloane Crosley, author of How Did You Get This Number, "A darkly comic account. . . Highly entertaining."-- The New Yorker " Fiction Ruined My Family reads like a script for performance art, a rapid stand-up routine, careless and wisecracky, signaling moments for the audience to respond to a punch line by clapping. The tinkle of glasses subsides; the performer makes a grimace, takes a bow, goes on. Yet genuine pain is explored - for the dangerous ambitions of fame and achievement and the really dangerous distractions of carelessness with loved ones."-- The San Francisco Chronicle "The wisecracking, ultrahip but ultimately tragic voice in "Fiction Ruined My Family" -- part stand-up comedy, part Lie Down in Darkness -- is fetching and fast and fun, and it's only after you fully understand the trauma at the heart of her family, the neglect that bordered on child abuse, that the sadness kicks in."-- The Chicago Tribune " There's nothing rare these days about a memoir of unconventional parents and a difficult childhood, but Darst brings freshness and often startling humor to her own story - which helps balance its more serious second half, in which alcoholism (parental and not) is decreasingly hidden behind charm."-- The Boston Globe "[A] winningly snarky memoir."-- The New York Times "The girl's got flair."-- Entertainment Weekly "Jeanne Darst's memoir about growing up in a hard-drinking family with big literary dreams is hilarious, heartbreaking, and inspiring."-- Marie Claire "In her memoir Fiction Ruined My Family , Jeanne Darst plunges into the story of her delusional family with wicked wit and fearlessness."-- Redbook "High fives to Jeanne Darst for Fiction Ruined My Family , her tale of surviving an alkie blue-blood mom, a hard-drinking failed-writer dad, and her own inebriated performer/playwright/crummy-job dysfunction to write this seriously comic tell-all about her entanglements, with family, friend, and--of course--her bodacious self."-- Elle "Darst has a brilliant eye for the absurd, sad, and often hilarious circumstances of her family life. . . . With cutting language, she chronicles the perils and joys of the writing life and her journey toward sobriety and truth."-- Publishers Weekly, " Fiction Ruined My Family had me laughing out loud, which I almost never do, with one jaw-dropping scene after another. On nearly every page there's some sentence that's so perfect, in an old-school Oscar Wilde/Dorothy Parker sort of way, that it made everything I've ever written or said seem like dull, drunken mumbling." - Ira Glass, host of This American Life "Jeanne Darst's memoir unfolds like a Eugene O'Neill play, with all the boozing and the weeping and the exclamatory self-pity. Only it's also very funny, and it has a happy ending (more or less). Snap this book up."--Tad Friend, author of Cheerful Money "As Tolstoy might have said if he'd survived the 1970s, happy families are all alike but every narcissistic parent is narcissistic in his or her own way. Jeanne Darst tells a story not only of family neuroses, artistic delusions and thwarted dreams but also of the nuances of social class, the tension between domesticity and bohemenianism, and the tragicomedy that comes from faking it but never quite making it. All my favorite themes! I also laughed out loud more times than I can count."--Meghan Daum, author of My Misspent Youth and Life Would Be Perfect If I Lived In That House "Jeanne Darst is funnier than a blotto WASP in a Lily Pulitzer wheelchair."--Wendy Burden, author of Dead End Gene Pool "In the tradition of the Mitford sisters' chronicles (but minus Hitler), Fiction Ruined My Family is both a very funny tragedy and a very sad comedy."--Patricia Marx, author of Him Her Him Again and the End of Him "Dazzlingly funny, gut wrenching and infested with writing that will absolutely floor you. Fiction Ruined My Family has ruined me--how will I ever be able to use those adjectives again and mean them as much as I do now?"--Sloane Crosley, author of How Did You Get This Number "Jeanne Darst manages to evoke humor and despair in a single sentence. I found myself rooting so hard for her. Fiction Ruined My Family is a great testament to surviving and overcoming wacky parents. A wonderful book." - Julie Klam, author of You Had Me at Woof, "The girl's got flair." - Entertainment Weekly "Jeanne Darst's memoir about growing up in a hard-drinking family with big literary dreams is hilarious, heartbreaking, and inspiring." - Marie Claire "In her memoir Fiction Ruined My Family , Jeanne Darst plunges into the story of her delusional family with wicked wit and fearlessness." - Redbook "High fives to Jeanne Darst for Fiction Ruined My Family , her tale of surviving an alkie blue-blood mom, a hard-drinking failed-writer dad, and her own inebriated performer/playwright/crummy-job dysfunction to write this seriously comic tell-all about her entanglements, with family, friend, and-of course-her bodacious self." - Elle " Fiction Ruined My Family had me laughing out loud, which I almost never do, with one jaw-dropping scene after another. On nearly every page there's some sentence that's so perfect, in an old-school Oscar Wilde/Dorothy Parker sort of way, that it made everything I've ever written or said seem like dull, drunken mumbling." -Ira Glass, host of This American Life "Jeanne Darst's memoir unfolds like a Eugene O'Neill play, with all the boozing and the weeping and the exclamatory self-pity. Only it's also very funny, and it has a happy ending (more or less). Snap this book up." -Tad Friend, author of Cheerful Money "As Tolstoy might have said if he'd survived the 1970s, happy families are all alike but every narcissistic parent is narcissistic in his or her own way. Jeanne Darst tells a story not only of family neuroses, artistic delusions and thwarted dreams but also of the nuances of social class, the tension between domesticity and bohemenianism, and the tragicomedy that comes from faking it but never quite making it. All my favorite themes! I also laughed out loud more times than I can count." -Meghan Daum, author of My Misspent Youth and Life Would Be Perfect If I Lived In That House "Jeanne Darst is funnier than a blotto WASP in a Lily Pulitzer wheelchair." -Wendy Burden, author of Dead End Gene Pool "Dazzlingly funny, gut wrenching and infested with writing that will absolutely floor you. Fiction Ruined My Family has ruined me-how will I ever be able to use those adjectives again and mean them as much as I do now?" -Sloane Crosley, author of How Did You Get This Number "In the tradition of the Mitford sisters' chronicles (but minus Hitler), Fiction Ruined My Family is both a very funny tragedy and a very sad comedy." -Patricia Marx, author of Him Her Him Again and the End of Him "Jeanne Darst is funnier than a blotto WASP in a Lily Pulitzer wheelchair." -Wendy Burden, author of Dead End Gene Pool "Jeanne Darst manages to evoke humor and despair in a single sentence. I found myself rooting so hard for her. Fiction Ruined My Family is a great testament to surviving and overcoming wacky parents. A wonderful book." -Julie Klam, author of You Had Me at Woof, "Jeanne Darst's memoir unfolds like a Eugene O'Neill play, with all the boozing and the weeping and the exclamatory self-pity. Only it's also very funny, and it has a happy ending (more or less). Snap this book up." Tad Friend, author of Cheerful Money, " Fiction Ruined My Family reads like a script for performance art, a rapid stand-up routine, careless and wisecracky, signaling moments for the audience to respond to a punch line by clapping. The tinkle of glasses subsides; the performer makes a grimace, takes a bow, goes on. Yet genuine pain is explored - for the dangerous ambitions of fame and achievement and the really dangerous distractions of carelessness with loved ones." The San Francisco Chronicle, "High fives to Jeanne Darst for Fiction Ruined My Family , her tale of surviving an alkie blue-blood mom, a hard-drinking failed-writer dad, and her own inebriated performer/playwright/crummy-job dysfunction to write this seriously comic tell-all about her entanglements, with family, friend, and-of course-her bodacious self." Elle, "A darkly comic account. . . Highly entertaining."- The New Yorker " Fiction Ruined My Family reads like a script for performance art, a rapid stand-up routine, careless and wisecracky, signaling moments for the audience to respond to a punch line by clapping. The tinkle of glasses subsides; the performer makes a grimace, takes a bow, goes on. Yet genuine pain is explored - for the dangerous ambitions of fame and achievement and the really dangerous distractions of carelessness with loved ones."- The San Francisco Chronicle "The wisecracking, ultrahip but ultimately tragic voice in "Fiction Ruined My Family" - part stand-up comedy, part Lie Down in Darkness - is fetching and fast and fun, and it's only after you fully understand the trauma at the heart of her family, the neglect that bordered on child abuse, that the sadness kicks in."- The Chicago Tribune " There's nothing rare these days about a memoir of unconventional parents and a difficult childhood, but Darst brings freshness and often startling humor to her own story - which helps balance its more serious second half, in which alcoholism (parental and not) is decreasingly hidden behind charm."- The Boston Globe "[A] winningly snarky memoir."- The New York Times "The girl's got flair."- Entertainment Weekly "Jeanne Darst's memoir about growing up in a hard-drinking family with big literary dreams is hilarious, heartbreaking, and inspiring."- Marie Claire "In her memoir Fiction Ruined My Family , Jeanne Darst plunges into the story of her delusional family with wicked wit and fearlessness."- Redbook "High fives to Jeanne Darst for Fiction Ruined My Family , her tale of surviving an alkie blue-blood mom, a hard-drinking failed-writer dad, and her own inebriated performer/playwright/crummy-job dysfunction to write this seriously comic tell-all about her entanglements, with family, friend, and-of course-her bodacious self."- Elle "Darst has a brilliant eye for the absurd, sad, and often hilarious circumstances of her family life. . . . With cutting language, she chronicles the perils and joys of the writing life and her journey toward sobriety and truth."- Publishers Weekly, "As Tolstoy might have said if he'd survived the 1970s, happy families are all alike but every narcissistic parent is narcissistic in his or her own way. Jeanne Darst tells a story not only of family neuroses, artistic delusions and thwarted dreams but also of the nuances of social class, the tension between domesticity and bohemenianism, and the tragicomedy that comes from faking it but never quite making it. All my favorite themes! I also laughed out loud more times than I can count." Meghan Daum, author of My Misspent Youth and Life Would Be Perfect I, " Fiction Ruined My Family had me laughing out loud, which I almost never do, with one jaw-dropping scene after another. On nearly every page there's some sentence that's so perfect, in an old-school Oscar Wilde/Dorothy Parker sort of way, that it made everything I've ever written or said seem like dull, drunken mumbling." Ira Glass, host of This American Life, "A darkly comic account. . . Highly entertaining."- The New Yorker " Fiction Ruined My Family reads like a script for performance art, a rapid stand-up routine, careless and wisecracky, signaling moments for the audience to respond to a punch line by clapping. The tinkle of glasses subsides; the performer makes a grimace, takes a bow, goes on. Yet genuine pain is explored - for the dangerous ambitions of fame and achievement and the really dangerous distractions of carelessness with loved ones."- The San Francisco Chronicle "The wisecracking, ultrahip but ultimately tragic voice in "Fiction Ruined My Family" - part stand-up comedy, part Lie Down in Darkness - is fetching and fast and fun, and it''s only after you fully understand the trauma at the heart of her family, the neglect that bordered on child abuse, that the sadness kicks in."- The Chicago Tribune " There's nothing rare these days about a memoir of unconventional parents and a difficult childhood, but Darst brings freshness and often startling humor to her own story - which helps balance its more serious second half, in which alcoholism (parental and not) is decreasingly hidden behind charm."- The Boston Globe "[A] winningly snarky memoir."- The New York Times "The girl''s got flair."- Entertainment Weekly "Jeanne Darst's memoir about growing up in a hard-drinking family with big literary dreams is hilarious, heartbreaking, and inspiring."- Marie Claire "In her memoir Fiction Ruined My Family , Jeanne Darst plunges into the story of her delusional family with wicked wit and fearlessness."- Redbook "High fives to Jeanne Darst for Fiction Ruined My Family , her tale of surviving an alkie blue-blood mom, a hard-drinking failed-writer dad, and her own inebriated performer/playwright/crummy-job dysfunction to write this seriously comic tell-all about her entanglements, with family, friend, and-of course-her bodacious self."- Elle "Darst has a brilliant eye for the absurd, sad, and often hilarious circumstances of her family life. . . . With cutting language, she chronicles the perils and joys of the writing life and her journey toward sobriety and truth."- Publishers Weekly, "Jeanne Darst is funnier than a blotto WASP in a Lily Pulitzer wheelchair." Wendy Burden, author of Dead End Gene Pool, "In the tradition of the Mitford sisters' chronicles (but minus Hitler), Fiction Ruined My Family is both a very funny tragedy and a very sad comedy." Patricia Marx, author of Him Her Him Again and the End of Him
Copyright Date
2011
Lccn
2011-027830
Dewey Decimal
813/.6
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
Description de l'objet du vendeur
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Numéro de l'objet eBay :355666338736
Expédition et manutention
Lieu où se trouve l'objet :
Byron Center, Michigan, États-Unis
Expédition :
Afghanistan, Afrique du Sud, Albanie, Algérie, Allemagne, Andorre, Angola, Anguilla, Antigua-et-Barbuda, Arabie saoudite, Argentine, Arménie, Aruba, Australie, Autriche, Azerbaïdjan, Bahamas, Bahreïn, Bangladesh, Belgique, Bermudes, Bhoutan, Bolivie, Bosnie-Herzégovine, Botswana, Brunéi Darussalam, Brésil, Bulgarie, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Bélize, Bénin, Cambodge, Cameroun, Canada, Chili, Chine, Chypre, Colombie, Corée du Sud, Costa Rica, Côte d'Ivoire, Danemark, Djibouti, Espagne, Estonie, Fidji, Finlande, France, Gabon, République du, Gambie, Ghana, Gibraltar, Grenade, Groenland, Grèce, Guatemala, Guinée, Guinée équatoriale, Guinée-Bissau, Guyana, Géorgie, Haïti, Honduras, Hong Kong, Hongrie, Inde, Indonésie, Irlande, Islande, Israël, Italie, Jamaïque, Japon, Jordanie, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kirghizistan, Kiribati, Koweït, Laos, Lesotho, Lettonie, Liban, Libéria, Liechtenstein, Lituanie, Luxembourg, Macao, Macédoine, Madagascar, Malaisie, Malawi, Maldives, Mali, Malte, Maroc, Mauritanie, Mexique, Moldavie, Monaco, Mongolie, Montserrat, Monténégro, Mozambique, Namibie, Nauru, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Norvège, Nouvelle-Zélande, Népal, Oman, Ouganda, Ouzbékistan, Pakistan, Panama, Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée, Paraguay, Pays-Bas, Philippines, Pologne, Portugal, Pérou, Qatar, Roumanie, Royaume-Uni, Rwanda, République centrafricaine, République de Croatie, République dominicaine, République du Congo, République démocratique du Congo, République tchèque, Saint-Kitts-et-Nevis, Saint-Marin, Saint-Vincent-et-les Grenadines, Sainte-Lucie, Salvador, Samoa, Serbie, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapour, Slovaque, Slovénie, Sri Lanka, Suisse, Suriname, Suède, Swaziland, Sénégal, Tadjikistan, Tanzanie, Taïwan, Tchad, Thaïlande, Togo, Tonga, Trinité-et-Tobago, Tunisie, Turkménistan, Turquie, Uruguay, Vanuatu, Vietnam, Wallis-et-Futuna, Yémen, Zambie, Zimbabwe, Égypte, Émirats arabes unis, Équateur, Érythrée, État de la Cité du Vatican, États-Unis, Éthiopie, Île Maurice, Îles Caïmans, Îles Salomon, Îles Turks et Caicos, Îles du Cap-Vert
Lieux exclus :
Barbade, Guadeloupe, Guyane française, Libye, Martinique, Nouvelle-Calédonie, Polynésie française, Russie, Réunion, Ukraine, Venezuela
| Expédition et manutention | À | Service | Livraison*Voir les remarques sur la livraison |
|---|---|---|---|
| Expédition sans frais | États-Unis | Expédition au tarif économique (USPS Media MailTM) | Livraison prévue entre le lun. 3 juin et le mar. 4 juin à 43230 |
| Délai de manutention |
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| Expédition dans les 1 jours ouvrables après réception du paiement. |
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Taxe de vente pour cet objet (355666338736)
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Modalités de renvoi
| Après réception de l'objet, contactez le vendeur dans un délai de | Mode de remboursement |
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| 30 jours | Remboursement |
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Évaluations comme vendeur (7 963)
s***a (333)- Évaluation laissée par l'acheteur.
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Fast shipping
7***7 (462)- Évaluation laissée par l'acheteur.
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Excellent seller, the card is in great condition, and the packaging is also excellent. Looking forward to dealing with you again.
7***7 (462)- Évaluation laissée par l'acheteur.
Dernier mois
Achat vérifié
Excellent seller, the card is in great condition, and the packaging is also excellent. Looking forward to dealing with you again.