Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Comedians
ISBN : OCLC:1311258011
A Liar's Autobiography
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A Liar's Autobiography
Graham Chapman
Author : Graham Chapman
Publisher : Random House (UK)
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1991-07-11
Category : Comedians
ISBN : 0749308176
A Liar's Autobiography by Graham Chapman Pdf
With a new afterword by Eric Idle written after the author's death, this a humorous book by one of the creators of Monty Python.
Liar
Rob Roberge
Author : Rob Roberge
Publisher : Crown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780553448078
Liar by Rob Roberge Pdf
An intense memoir about mental illness, memory and storytelling, from an acclaimed novelist. When Rob Roberge learns that he's likely to have developed a progressive memory-eroding disease from years of hard living and frequent concussions, he is terrified by the prospect of becoming a walking shadow. In a desperate attempt to preserve his identity, he sets out to (somewhat faithfully) record the most formative moments of his life—ranging from the brutal murder of his childhood girlfriend, to a diagnosis of rapid-cycling bipolar disorder, to opening for famed indie band Yo La Tengo at The Fillmore in San Francisco. But the process of trying to remember his past only exposes just how fragile the stories that lay at the heart of our self-conception really are. As Liar twists and turns through Roberge’s life, it turns the familiar story of sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll on its head. Darkly funny and brutally frank, it offers a remarkable portrait of a down and out existence cobbled together across the country, from musicians’ crashpads around Boston, to seedy bars popular with sideshow freaks in Florida, to a painful moment of reckoning in the scorched Wonder Valley desert of California. As Roberge struggles to keep addiction and mental illness from destroying the good life he has built in his better moments, he is forced to acknowledge the increasingly blurred line between the lies we tell others and the lies we tell ourselves.
Everything Is Perfect When You're A Liar
Kelly Oxford
Author : Kelly Oxford
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-02
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781443408226
Everything Is Perfect When You're A Liar by Kelly Oxford Pdf
Everything in this book is true. The time Kelly peed her pants in the gas station. The time she stalked Leonardo DiCaprio through Los Angeles as a stoned teenager. The time she used her son’s diaper explosion to get out of a speeding ticket. And especially the time she was convinced David Copperfield could read her mind. Kelly’s more than half a million Twitter followers already knew she was hilarious, and Everything Is Perfect When You’re a Liar has proven it, spending months on the bestseller list, earning her love from both reviewers and readers, and proving “not only has she mastered the 140-character barb, but the long-form essay as well.”* Kelly’s adventures are now in paperback, with a brand-new story about how she and her husband, James, got married to fulfill their son’s desire to be a ring bearer. (But blew it, by forgetting a crucial detail.) From childhood to motherhood, from the zany to the tearjerking, Kelly covers it all and proves that when you live life unapologetically, there’s no need to lie.
Liar's Poker
Michael Lewis
Author : Michael Lewis
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2010-03-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0393066258
Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis Pdf
The time was the 1980s. The place was Wall Street. The game was called Liar’s Poker. Michael Lewis was fresh out of Princeton and the London School of Economics when he landed a job at Salomon Brothers, one of Wall Street’s premier investment firms. During the next three years, Lewis rose from callow trainee to bond salesman, raking in millions for the firm and cashing in on a modern-day gold rush. Liar’s Poker is the culmination of those heady, frenzied years—a behind-the-scenes look at a unique and turbulent time in American business. From the frat-boy camaraderie of the forty-first-floor trading room to the killer instinct that made ambitious young men gamble everything on a high-stakes game of bluffing and deception, here is Michael Lewis’s knowing and hilarious insider’s account of an unprecedented era of greed, gluttony, and outrageous fortune.
A Terrible Liar
Hume Cronyn
Author : Hume Cronyn
Publisher : Quill
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1993-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0688128440
A Terrible Liar by Hume Cronyn Pdf
The revealing and anecdote-filled memoir of the first 50 years in the life of one of our leading actors. Cronyn can tell a good story. . . . This is not a one-man show of his life and times; rather, it is an investigation into what makes him tick. . . .--New York Times Book Review. Photos.
The Liar
Stephen Fry
Author : Stephen Fry
Publisher : Soho Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2003-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781569478097
The Liar by Stephen Fry Pdf
An “outrageously hilarious” novel about a young man who has trouble with the truth (The Boston Globe). Adrian Healey loves to lie. He does it all the time. Every minute, every moment. And worse, he does it wonderfully, imaginatively, brilliantly. He lies to buck the system, to express his contempt for convention, but mostly because he just plain likes to. It’s fun. He invents a lost pornographic novel by Charles Dickens, and, for himself, a career as a Piccadilly rent boy, hireable by the hour. But Adrian’s lies eventually bring true danger, as he finds himself caught up in the machinations of a shadowy network that puts his own life at risk, in this “clever and entertaining novel that will appeal to Anglophiles with a twisted sense of humor” (Library Journal).
A Liar's Autobiography
Graham Chapman
Author : Graham Chapman
Publisher : Methuen Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Comedians
ISBN : 0413777286
A Liar's Autobiography by Graham Chapman Pdf
"Graham Chapman's extraordinary and surreal account of his more than eventful life - whether as mountaineer or medical student; actor or alcoholic; heterosexual groupie guzzler or homosexual coming to terms with himself. He was a celebrated member of the Monty Python team and his zany wit became familiar to millions of viewers world-wide in his assorted roles as military colonel, policeman and doctor and as the eponymous hero of the Python film The Life of Brian"--Publisher's description.
Lying
Lauren Slater
Author : Lauren Slater
Publisher : Random House
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307830166
Lying by Lauren Slater Pdf
"The beauty of Lauren Slater's prose is shocking," said Newsday about Welcome to My Country, and now, in this powerful and provocative new book, Slater brilliantly explores a mind, a body, and a life under siege. Diag-nosed as a child with a strange illness, brought up in a family given to fantasy and ambition, Lauren Slater developed seizures, auras, neurological disturbances--and an ability to lie. In Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir, Slater blends a coming-of-age story with an electrifying exploration of the nature of truth, and of whether it is ever possible to tell--or to know--the facts about a self, a human being, a life. Lying chronicles the doctors, the tests, the seizures, the family embarrassments, even as it explores a sensitive child's illness as both metaphor and a means of attention-getting--a human being's susceptibility to malady, and to storytelling as an act of healing and as part of the quest for love. This mesmerizing memoir openly questions the reliability of memoir itself, the trickiness of the mind in perceiving reality, the slippery nature of illness and diagnosis--the shifting perceptions and images of who we are and what, for God's sake, is the matter with us. In Lying, Lauren Slater forces us to redraw the boundary between what we know as fact and what we believe we create as fiction. Here a young woman discovers not only what plagues her but also what heals her--the birth of sensuality, her creativity as an artist--in a book that reaffirms how a fine writer can reveal what is common to us all in the course of telling her own unique story. About Welcome to My Country, the San Francisco Chronicle said, "Every page brims with beautifully rendered images of thoughts, feelings, emotional states." The same can be said about Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir.
Cherry
Mary Karr
Author : Mary Karr
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2001-09-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781101650745
Cherry by Mary Karr Pdf
From Mary Karr comes this gorgeously written, often hilarious story of her tumultuous teens and sexual coming-of-age. Picking up where the bestselling The Liars' Club left off, Karr dashes down the trail of her teen years with customary sass, only to run up against the paralyzing self-doubt of a girl in bloom. Fleeing the thrills and terrors of adolescence, she clashes against authority in all its forms and hooks up with an unforgettable band of heads and bona-fide geniuses. Parts of Cherry will leave you gasping with laughter. Karr assembles a self from the smokiest beginnings, delivering a long-awaited sequel that is both "bawdy and wise" (San Francisco Chronicle).
The Life of Graham
Bob McCabe
Author : Bob McCabe
Publisher : Orion Publishing Company
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2007-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0752865005
The Life of Graham by Bob McCabe Pdf
This is his official biography written with the full cooperation of the Pythons and Chapman's partner David Sherlock - with full access to unseen pictures. Graham Chapman was the quiet, pipe-smoking Python who qualified as a doctor. He was the policeman's son whose tweed-jacketed demeanour belied his true anarchic nature. More than any other Python he lived the complete lunacy of the show. Chapman was John Cleese's writing partner from their early days at Cambridge Footlights right through the Monty Python years. But it was Chapman's off-screen antics that are closest to the surreal qualities of a Python sketch. Terry Gilliam remembers how he would go into a restaurant and suddenly disappear: "He'd be under somebody's table licking the girl's feet while her date was there!" Chapman was a founder member of an infamous drinking club with The Who's drummer, Keith Moon. Chapman had a wine cellar stuffed full with bottles of gin and at the height of his drinking - which started out as a nerve-calmer for performances - he would consume eight pints of gin a day. He fearlessly flaunted his homosexuality at a time when it was certainly not the done thing. To add further mix to his personal life, Chapman and his partner David Sherlock adopted a 14-year-old boy. Graham Chapman died in 1989 with brilliant comic timing on the eve of the 20th anniversary of the first recording of Python. A huge celebratory Python party was cancelled as a result and Terry Jones harrumphed Chapman's death as "the greatest act of party-pooping in history". Bob McCabe has had the full co-operation of Sherlock and the Pythons in writing this fascinating and revealing account of the life of one of British comedy's best-loved figures.
Calcium Made Interesting
Graham Chapman
Author : Graham Chapman
Publisher : Pan Books (UK)
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1509823182
Calcium Made Interesting by Graham Chapman Pdf
Graham Chapman is said to have been Monty Python's one true anarchist. Like his mentors Spike Milligan and Peter Cook, the man who portrayed the mistaken messiah in Life of Brian lived his life on and off stage with a sheer delight in madness for its own sake. 'I want to be a loony,' he said, 'it's quite an important thing.' Calcium Made Interesting contains everything from Graham Chapman's unpublished sketches and transcripts of his lecture tours to letters to his bank manager and reflections on his fellow Pythons and as a result offers a unique insight into the real Graham Chapman. Previously unpublished essays and notes help chart the life and times of a comic legend and include such gems as his reflections on how it feels to be crucified and his nostalgic memories of blowing up hotel rooms with his good friend Keith Moon. Funny and surreal, this collection captures the eclectic spirit of a true genius and confirms Graham Chapman's lasting impact on British comedy.
The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp
W. H. Davies
Author : W. H. Davies
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547059066
The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp by W. H. Davies Pdf
In this gripping work, W.H. Davies wrote of the five years he spent as a wanderer roaming across the US, Canada, and England. He told how he never bought a ticket but traveled by train, riverboat, and foot. Davies lived by begging, hawking, harvesting crops, tending cattle, and more. The book uncovers his love for reading and writing, particularly poetry. A hard but free life is depicted by him in this work that is fun to read about.
Halfway To Hollywood
Michael Palin
Author : Michael Palin
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2009-12-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780297860518
Halfway To Hollywood by Michael Palin Pdf
Michael Palin's bestselling diaries of the 1980s. After a live performance at the Hollywood Bowl, The Pythons made their last performance together in 1983 in the hugely successful MONTY PYTHON'S MEANING OF LIFE. Writing and acting in films and television then took over much of Michael's life, culminating in the smash hit A FISH CALLED WANDA (for which he won a BAFTA for Best Supporting Actor), and the first of his seven celebrated television journeys for the BBC. He co-produced, wrote and played the lead in THE MISSIONARY opposite Maggie Smith, who also appeared with him in A PRIVATE FUNCTION, written by Alan Bennett. Such was his fame in the US, he was enticed into once again hosting the enormously popular show Saturday Night Live, in one edition of which his mother makes a highly successful surprise guest appearance. He filmed several journeys for television and became chairman of the pressure group, Transport 2000. His family remains a constant as his and Helen's children enter their teens.
So Anyway
John Cleese
Author : John Cleese
Publisher : Doubleday Canada
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780385680257
So Anyway by John Cleese Pdf
John Cleese’s huge comedic influence has stretched across generations; his sharp irreverent eye and the unique brand of physical comedy he perfected with Monty Python, on Fawlty Towers, and beyond now seem written into comedy’s DNA. In this rollicking memoir, So, Anyway…, Cleese takes readers on a Grand Tour of his ascent in the entertainment world, from his humble beginnings in a sleepy English town and his early comedic days at Cambridge University (with future Python partner Graham Chapman), to the founding of the landmark comedy troupe that would propel him to worldwide renown. Cleese was just days away from graduating Cambridge and setting off on a law career when he was visited by two BBC executives, who offered him a job writing comedy for radio. That fateful moment—and a near-simultaneous offer to take his university humour revue to London’s famed West End—propelled him down a different path, cutting his teeth writing for stars like David Frost and Peter Sellers, and eventually joining the five other Pythons to pioneer a new kind of comedy that prized invention, silliness, and absurdity. Along the way, he found his first true love with the actress Connie Booth and transformed himself from a reluctant performer to a world-class actor and back again. Twisting and turning through surprising stories and hilarious digressions—with some brief pauses along the way that comprise a fascinating primer on what’s funny and why—this story of a young man’s journey to the pinnacle of comedy is a masterly performance by a master performer.