Tragedy Plus Time: A Tragi-comic Memoir - Couverture rigide

Cayton-Holland, Adam

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ISBN 10 : 1501170163 ISBN 13 : 9781501170164

Editeur : Gallery Books, 2018

Synopsis

Soon to Be a Major Motion Picture Starring David Duchovny, Directed by Jay Duplass · Winner of the Colorado Book Award for Creative Nonfiction · Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Best Memoir

See You When I See You is Adam Cayton-Holland’s “heartbreaking work of genius” (Booklist) about the comedian’s relationship with his younger sister, who took her own life.

“Inspiring, tragic, and at times heartrendingly funny.” —People

Unsentimental, unexpectedly funny, and incredibly honest, See You When I See You is a love letter to every family that has ever felt messy, complicated, or (even momentarily) magnificent.

Meet the Magnificent Cayton-Hollands, a trio of brilliant, acerbic teenagers from Denver, Colorado, who were going to change the world. Anna, Adam, and Lydia were taught by their father, a civil rights lawyer, and mother, an investigative journalist, to recognize injustice and have their hearts open to the universe—the good, the bad, the heartbreaking (and, inadvertently, the anxiety-inducing and the obsessive-compulsive disorder–fueling).

Adam chose to meet life’s tough breaks and cruel realities with stand-up comedy; his older sister, Anna, chose law; while their youngest sister, Lydia, struggled to find her place in the world. Beautiful and whip-smart, Lydia was witty, extremely sensitive, fiercely stubborn, and always somewhat haunted. She and Adam bonded over comedy from a young age, running skits in their basement and obsessing over episodes of The Simpsons.

When Adam sunk into a deep depression in college, it was Lydia who was able to reach him and pull him out. But years later as Adam’s career takes off, Lydia’s own depression overtakes her, and, though he tries, Adam can’t
return the favor. When she takes her own life, the family is devastated, and Adam throws himself into his stand-up, drinking, and rage. He struggles with disturbing memories of Lydia’s death and turns to EMDR therapy to treat his posttraumatic stress disorder when he realizes there’s a difference between losing and losing it.

Adam Cayton-Holland is a tremendously talented writer and comedian, uniquely poised to take readers to the edges of comedy and tragedy, brilliance and madness. See You When I See You is a revelatory, darkly funny, and poignant tribute to a lost sibling that will have you reaching for the phone to call your brother or sister by the last page.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Adam Cayton-Holland is a writer, comic, and actor who lives in Denver, Colorado, with his wife Katie, their two sons, and a weird dog named Sebastian. He is the cocreator of the TV show Those Who Can’t, and wrote the screenplay for the movie See You When I See You, based off his memoir, Tragedy Plus Time. Adam’s writing has also appeared in McSweeney’s, Esquire, and The Atlantic. He has numerous stand-up comedy albums, and specials, all available wherever such things are to be found, and he once threw out the first pitch at a Colorado Rockies game. People have described him as “genial,” and “with decent teeth.” Visit him online at AdamCaytonHolland.com.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Gallery Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1501170163
• ISBN 13: 9781501170164
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: Simon and Schuster Netherlands BV; info@simonandschuster.nl; ; Herculesplein 96; Utrecht; 3584 AA; Pays-Bas