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Availability:In StockContributor:Joel GolbyPublish date:2019-03-05Pages:304
Language:EnglishPublisher:Anchor BooksISBN-13:9780525562771ISBN-10:052556277XUPC:9780525562771Book Category:Social Science, Humor, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Popular Culture, Form, MemoirsBook Topic:EssaysSize:7.90 x 5.10 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.4012Product ID:SC3FAJ7H67
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"This is a funny and beautiful book. What a little bastard." --Russell Brand
"Every paragraph is like doing a shot with a friend. A double." --Caitlin Moran

Joel Golby's writing for Vice and The Guardian, with its wry observation and naked self-reflection, has brought him a wide and devoted following. Now, in his first book, he presents a blistering collection of new and newly expanded essays--including the achingly funny viral hit "Things You Only Know When Both Your Parents Are Dead." In these pages, he travels to Saudi Arabia, where he acts as a perplexed bystander at a camel pageant; offers a survival guide for the modern dinner party (i.e. how to tactfully escape at the first sign of an adult board game); and gets pitted head-to-head, again and again, with an unpredictable, unpitying subspecies of Londoner: the landlord.

Through it all, he shows that no matter how cruel the misfortune, how absurd the circumstance, there's always the soft punch of a lesson tucked within. This is a book for anyone who overshares, overthinks, has ever felt lost or confused--and who wants to have a good laugh about it.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Anchor BooksISBN-13:9780525562771ISBN-10:052556277XUPC:9780525562771Book Category:Social Science, Humor, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Popular Culture, Form, MemoirsBook Topic:EssaysSize:7.90 x 5.10 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.4012Product ID:SC3FAJ7H67
Joel Golby is a staff writer for Vice, where he is among the site's most read contributors. He has written for The Guardian, Shortlist, and the BBC. He's more of a cat than a dog man, but he see merits in both. He lives in London.
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