The Totally Unscientific Study of the Search for Human Happiness - Couverture souple

Poundstone, Paula

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1616208066 ISBN 13 : 9781616208066

Editeur : Algonquin Books, 2018

Synopsis

In this book, we accompany Paula (and often her three kids) as she conducts a "thorough investigation" into whether what people say makes them happy actually last when confronted with the reality of a busy, messy life. Each chapter is one experiment: from getting in shape to getting organized, from renting a sports car to exploring the outdoors. Paula takes dancing lessons, she gives plasma, and she volunteers at a retirement home. Armed with self-deprecating wit and the scientific method, Paula dutifully reports on the keys to a better life. In the end, the book is both a comment on a culture that insists that we all be happy all the time and, ironically, a book that will bring happiness (in the form of laughter) to many readers at least for a little while.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Paula Poundstone is a popular panelist on NPR’s weekly comedy quiz program Wait Wait . . . Don’t Tell Me!. She tours regularly, performing standup throughout the country. Poundstone was the first woman ever to share the stage with the President as host at the White House Correspondents' Dinner. She has had numerous HBO specials, starred in her own series on HBO and ABC, is included in Comedy Central’s list of Top 100 Comics of All Time, and has won an American Comedy Award. The National Spokesperson for the ALA’s United for Libraries Volunteer Network, she is also the author of There’s Nothing in This Book That I Meant to Say.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

“Paula Poundstone is the funniest human being I have ever known.”*
 
“My God, this is a funny book!” —Dick Cavett
 
“Everything she does, thinks, or says is hilarious. If you chopped her into bits, each piece would be hilarious. (But don’t.) So, thus and naturally, this book is hilarious. Even the punctuation is a scream. Buy it.” —*Peter Sagal, host of Wait Wait . . . Don’t Tell Me! and author of The Book of Vice
 
“Paula Poundstone never disappoints with her stand-up, and now she has written an informative and highly entertaining book that deserves to be read and discussed.” —Carl Reiner
 
“Highly recommended!” —Dick Van Dyke
 
“Did someone finally do it? Did Paula Poundstone discover the secret to human happiness? I don’t want to give away the ending, but she did make
me laugh a lot, and even shed some tears.  Read this book!” —Pete Docter, screenwriter and director, Inside Out, Up, and Monsters, Inc. 
 
“Hilarious.”—P. J. O’Rourke
 
“The bravest and best improv comic of our time has now done the impossible and created a Work of Literature that has the wild, hairy spirit of performance about it. The whole family comes in for the price of one ticket and there is not a bad seat in the house.”—Garrison Keillor 
 
“Paula Poundstone says that deep-rooted happiness requires a sense of purpose. I started reading this book because I knew it would make me laugh, and it did. I finished this book with hope, my own sense of purpose, and a renewed faith in people.” —Trisha Yearwood
 
 

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Algonquin Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1616208066
• ISBN 13: 9781616208066
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible