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Growing Up with George
St. Martin's Press
September 2015
On Sale: September 15, 2015
336 pages
ISBN: 1250058252
EAN: 9781250058256
Kindle: B00UFN3GTE
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Non-Fiction Memoir
Truly the voice of a generation, George Carlin gave the
world some of the most hysterical and iconic comedy routines
of the last fifty years. From the "Seven Dirty Words" to "A
Place for My Stuff," to "Religion is Bullshit," he perfected
the art of making audiences double over with laughter while
simultaneously making people wake up to the realities (and
insanities) of life in the twentieth century. Few
people glimpsed the inner life of this beloved comedian, but
his only child, Kelly, was there to see it all. Born at the
very beginning of his decades-long career in comedy, she
slid around the "old Dodge Dart," as he and wife Brenda
drove around the country to "hell gigs." She witnessed his
transformation in the '70s, as he fought back against-and
talked back to-the establishment; she even talked him down
from a really bad acid trip a time or two ("Kelly, the sun
has exploded and we have eight, no-seven and a half minutes
to live!"). Kelly not only watched her father
constantly reinvent himself and his comedy, but also had a
front row seat to the roller coaster turmoil of her family's
inner life-alcoholism, cocaine addiction, life-threatening
health scares, and a crushing debt to the IRS. But having
been the only "adult" in her family prepared her little for
the task of her own adulthood. All the while, Kelly sought
to define her own voice as she separated from the shadow of
her father's genius. With rich humor and deep
insight, Kelly Carlin pulls back the curtain on what it was
like to grow up as the daughter of one of the most
recognizable comedians of our time, and become a woman in
her own right. This vivid, hilarious, heartbreaking story is
at once singular and universal-it is a contemplation of what
it takes to move beyond the legacy of childhood, and forge a
life of your own.
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