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Real Words. Real People. Real Pathetic.
Simon Spotlight
December 2006
On Sale: November 28, 2006
416 pages
ISBN: 1416928073
EAN: 9781416928072
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Non-Fiction
In the days before blogs, teenagers recorded their lives
with a pen in top-secret notebooks, usually emblazoned with
an earnest, underlined plea to parents to keep away. Since
2002, David Nadelberg has tapped that vast wellspring of
adolescent anguish in the stage show Mortified, in which
grown men and women confront their past with firsthand tales
of their first kiss, first puff, worst prom, fights with
mom, life at bible camp, worst hand job, best mall job, and
reasons they deserved to marry Simon LeBon. Following the same formula that has made the live show a
beloved cult hit, Mortified the book takes real childhood
journals and documents and edits the entries into
captivating, comedic, and cathartic stories, introduced by
their now older (and allegedly wiser) authors. From letters
begging rescue from a hellish summer camp to catty locker
notes about stuck-up classmates to obsessive love that
borders on stalking, Mortified gives voice to the real --
and really pathetic -- hopes, fears, desires, and creative
urgings that have united adolescents for generations.
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