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Gillespie, Hollis

 
9781599213859: Trailer Trashed: My Dubious Efforts Toward Upward Mobility
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1599213850 ISBN 13: 9781599213859
Verlag: Globe Pequot Press, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

Once upon a time, Hollis Gillespie was ashamed about having a hard-drinking, trailer-salesman dad and a missile-making mom with broken dreams of being a beautician. That was then. This is now. Trailer Trashed is a hilarious and heartbreaking collection of essays on one broad theme—Hollis’s relationships with her offbeat sisters, her precocious daughter, her bizarre friends, and the people they love. Brimming with irreverent, side-splitting observations on life that will wow fans of Augusten Burroughs and Sarah Vowell, Trailer Trashed follows an offbeat single mom through the raucous journey of her life, from hauling a safe to Nicaragua for her sister to selling a television series in Los Angeles for herself.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Hollis Gillespie is a syndicated humor columnist and the author of two memoirs, Bleachy-Haired Honky Bitch and Confessions of a Recovering Slut. She has been a Writer’s Digest “Breakout Author of the Year” and a guest on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. She is also a television writer, NPR commentator, keynote speaker, and writing instructor. She lives in Atlanta, writing out of a trailer in her backyard.

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?If you enjoy your humor twisted like a molly bolt, Gillespie is your gal. One
of the few writers who require stretching warm-ups to avoid pulling something
in a laughing seizure. ?Tim Dorsey, author of Atomic Lobster
?Can a book be bust-out hilarious and also break your heart? Hollis Gillespie's
roller coaster memoir, Trailer Trashed, does just that. In it she manages to remember not only herself, but each of us as well.

?Jacquelyn Mitchard, author of The Deep End of the Ocean and The Midnight Twins

Aus dem Klappentext

Hollis Gillespie used to be embarrassed about her hard-drinking, trailer-salesman dad and her missile-making mom with broken dreams of becoming a beautician. But that was then. This is now.

Trailer Trashed is a hilarious and blisteringly honest collection of essays that follows an offbeat single mom through the journey of her life?from finding solace wherever trailer hookups were found, to kidnapping a meth-addicted friend in need of rehab, to pondering over whether to use her bartender's young sperm from his old self or old sperm from his young self. In short, Hollis's prospects of climbing her way out of the riotous lunacy from whence she came sometimes do seem dubious indeed.

Brimming with irreverent, side-splitting observations on life that will wow fans of Augusten Burroughs and Sarah Vowell, this is an irresistible, roller coaster ride
of a book.

?Ride with me, Hollis's father used to say, and she'd hop into his Chevrolet Corvair. And off they'd go again to no place in particular, happily so. Trailer Trashed is like these rides?in the end it's not where you go, but the ride to get you there that matters.

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Verlag
Globe Pequot Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2008
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1599213850
ISBN 13 
9781599213859
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Zeichner
Polisky James
Anzahl der Seiten
264
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