Purchase

Amazon

Kindle

Barnes & Noble

Books-A-Million

Indie BookShop

Add to Wish List

Also by Sam Harris:

Ham: Slices of a Life, January 2014
Hardcover / e-Book
The Moral Landscape, October 2010
Hardcover
Letter to a Christian Nation, September 2006
Hardcover
The End of Faith, October 2005
Paperback (reprint)

HAM: SLICES OF A LIFE
By: Sam Harris

Gallery Books
January 2014
On Sale: January 14, 2014
320 pages
ISBN: 1476733414
EAN: 9781476733418
Kindle: B00BSBVFLS
Hardcover / e-Book
Add to Wish List

Humor

For fans of David Sedaris and Chelsea Handler, these stories and essays about friendship, celebrity, growing up and getting sober will have you laughing and crying in equal measure.

With a wry style that evokes comparisons to Carrie Fisher, David Rakoff, and Steve Martin, Sam Harris proves that he is a natural humorist. Even The New York Times, in a review of one of his musical performances, called his stories “New Yorker-worthy.”

Brilliantly written, these sixteen stories span Harris’s life from growing up gay in the buckle of America’s Bible belt to performing on Oprah’s first show after 9/11. In “I Feel, You Feel” he opens for Aretha Franklin during a blizzard. “Promises” is a front-row account of Liza Minnelli’s infamous wedding to “the man whose name shall go unmentioned.” In the title story, “Ham,” he describes how he was upstaged by a young child actor, unknowingly addicted to the spotlight.

Taking on issues as diverse as addiction, fame, and parenting with his hilarious and deeply human voice, Harris’s entertaining tales trace an arc of personal triumph that is universally accessible and inspiring.

Media Buzz

Weekend Edition Saturday - January 25, 2014