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Love, Faith, And Other Social Expressions
Riverhead Hardcover
October 2009
On Sale: October 1, 2009
384 pages
ISBN: 1594488819
EAN: 9781594488818
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Non-Fiction
An original and hilarious memoir by an ex-greeting card
writer, virgin fundamentalist, and This American Life
contributor that chronicles how, in the belly of the "social
expression" industry, he learned to love, thrive, and
finally feel comfortable in his own skin. David Dickerson's
dream is to write greeting cards-Valentine's Day, sympathy,
and holiday cards. Greeting cards offer him the chance to
indulge his gifted obsession with words, puns, and humor.
But when he manages to win a coveted slot at Hallmark, he
soon discovers his own limited life experience has left him
unprepared for sentiments he writes about in his cards: As a
fundamentalist-raised, twenty-seven-year-old virgin social
misfit, he knows that his world is decidedly circumscribed.
In House of Cards, Dickerson tells of his time at Hallmark
and how the experience and the cast of characters he meets
there open his eyes to a much larger and emotionally rich
world. In comic and sometimes cringe-inducing detail, he
chronicles his bumpy journey to maturity, from straitlaced
evangelical Christian to (relatively) modern single guy. As
Dickerson navigates supervisors and colleagues who don't
understand him, he learns what it takes to connect with this
new lot of personalities and how to write funny lines that
resonate with the heart of America. Along the way he
confronts his past, his beliefs, his relationships, even his
virginity, as he ponders whether his struggle to stay true
to the life he knows is worth it. Endearing and
idiosyncratic, House of Cards is the very human story of one
man who, step by step, stumble by stumble, embarrassment by
embarrassment, finds his place in the world.
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