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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
City Lights Books
Publication date
September 24, 2013
Pages
112
Binding
Paperback
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780872866256
ISBN-10
0872866254
Dimensions
0.50 by 5.50 by 8 in.
Weight
0.35 lbs.
Original list price
$14.95
Subjects
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Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description:
Peering into life's cringe-worthy moments, best-selling author Beth Lisick excavates territory that most would rather ignore. Funny, odd, deeply personal, yet somehow universal, these are the kind of memories that haunt us all, the small awful moments of shame and humiliation that we'd rather forget than relive.
Beth Lisick has made a career of opening her life to her readers in all of its messy, smart hilarity, but this type of story doesn't usually find its way into a memoir. With her trademark humor and sly intelligence, writing in short flashes the way these episodes tend to pop up in memory, Lisick recounts her most embarrassing moments with gusto. From a trick she played on a neighbor thirty years ago to what she accidentally blurted out at last night's dinner party, she explores the bad judgments and free-floating regrets that keep her up at night, and the result is a daring, candid, and wickedly funny collection of embarrassment embraced, the triumph of humor and perspective over everyday mortification.
Writer, performer, and independent film actress Beth Lisick is the author of the New York Times best-selling comic memoir Everybody Into the Pool and the gonzo self-help manifesto Helping Me Help Myself.
Praise for Yokohama Threeway:
"The ultimate joyride for those of us who enjoy cringe-worthy embarrassment, genuine pathos, and an overdosing amount of schadenfreude."âMichael Ian Black
"This book is fucking great."âKathleen Hanna, of Bikini Kill and The Julie Ruin
"A strangely touching and engaging portrait of the artist as a young screwup."âBooklist
"Yokohama Threeway blends the funny and the painful into an elixir more closely resembling cough medicine than soda popâa little bitter, made up of strange ingredients, not real pretty, but necessary if you want to get better. In the end, you are happy you took it, even if it leaves a funky aftertaste."âWorld Literature Today
"Speaking as someone who hates everything, I love this book."âJames Greer, musician & author of The Failure
"Hilarious, heartbreaking, compassionate, pitch perfect, utterly original."âJoyce Maynard, author of After Her and Labor Day
"A laugh-out-loud series of short, revelatory confessions propelled by curiosity and an acute desire to experience the world. It is not now and perhaps never will be quite in vogue for people to share their shames, but Lisick does it with aplomb and even exuberance."âEvan Karp, SF Weekly
"Beth Lisick's new essay collection Yokohama Threeway made me laugh out loud more than anything else I have read all year, she is a master at sharing her life experiences with self-deprecating yet honest humor."âDavid Gutowski, Largehearted Boy
"Beth Lisick, divulges the most embarrassing moments in a series of short essays dripping with wicked humor."â7x7 Magazine
Beth Lisick has made a career of opening her life to her readers in all of its messy, smart hilarity, but this type of story doesn't usually find its way into a memoir. With her trademark humor and sly intelligence, writing in short flashes the way these episodes tend to pop up in memory, Lisick recounts her most embarrassing moments with gusto. From a trick she played on a neighbor thirty years ago to what she accidentally blurted out at last night's dinner party, she explores the bad judgments and free-floating regrets that keep her up at night, and the result is a daring, candid, and wickedly funny collection of embarrassment embraced, the triumph of humor and perspective over everyday mortification.
Writer, performer, and independent film actress Beth Lisick is the author of the New York Times best-selling comic memoir Everybody Into the Pool and the gonzo self-help manifesto Helping Me Help Myself.
Praise for Yokohama Threeway:
"The ultimate joyride for those of us who enjoy cringe-worthy embarrassment, genuine pathos, and an overdosing amount of schadenfreude."âMichael Ian Black
"This book is fucking great."âKathleen Hanna, of Bikini Kill and The Julie Ruin
"A strangely touching and engaging portrait of the artist as a young screwup."âBooklist
"Yokohama Threeway blends the funny and the painful into an elixir more closely resembling cough medicine than soda popâa little bitter, made up of strange ingredients, not real pretty, but necessary if you want to get better. In the end, you are happy you took it, even if it leaves a funky aftertaste."âWorld Literature Today
"Speaking as someone who hates everything, I love this book."âJames Greer, musician & author of The Failure
"Hilarious, heartbreaking, compassionate, pitch perfect, utterly original."âJoyce Maynard, author of After Her and Labor Day
"A laugh-out-loud series of short, revelatory confessions propelled by curiosity and an acute desire to experience the world. It is not now and perhaps never will be quite in vogue for people to share their shames, but Lisick does it with aplomb and even exuberance."âEvan Karp, SF Weekly
"Beth Lisick's new essay collection Yokohama Threeway made me laugh out loud more than anything else I have read all year, she is a master at sharing her life experiences with self-deprecating yet honest humor."âDavid Gutowski, Largehearted Boy
"Beth Lisick, divulges the most embarrassing moments in a series of short essays dripping with wicked humor."â7x7 Magazine
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from City Lights Books (September 24, 2013)
9780872866256 | details & prices | 112 pages | 5.50 × 8.00 × 0.50 in. | 0.35 lbs | List price $14.95
About: Peering into life's cringe-worthy moments, best-selling author Beth Lisick excavates territory that most would rather ignore.
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