A Field Guide to Awkward Silences

Petri, Alexandra

ISBN 10: 0451469615 / ISBN 13: 9780451469618

Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group, 2016

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 0451469615-4-32766072

Inhaltsangabe:

Washington Post columnist Alexandra Petri shares her stories of awkwardness in this insightful and supremely funny debut.

Most twentysomethings avoid awkwardness. 
Not Alexandra Petri.

She auditioned for America’s Next Top Model. She lost Jeopardy! by answering “Who is that dude?” One time, she let some cult members baptize her, just to be polite. Alexandra Petri is a connoisseur of the kind of awkwardness most people spend lifetimes avoiding. If John Hodgman and Amy Sedaris had a baby. . .they would never let Petri babysit it.

Here, the Washington Post columnist turns her satirical eye on her own life—with hilarious results. And she’s here to tell you that interesting things start to happen when you stop caring what people think.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Some people are born awkward. Some achieve awkwardness. Some have awkwardness thrust upon them. Alexandra Petri is all three. She is a Washington Post columnist and blogger, an International Pun Champion, a playwright, and a Jeopardy! loser, and she’s been on your TV a couple of times. She is also a congressman’s kid, if that will make you buy this book! When she remembers, she does stand-up comedy too.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: A Field Guide to Awkward Silences
Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group
Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
Einband: paperback
Zustand: Fair