Best to Laugh : A Novel Paperback / softback
by Lorna Landvik
Paperback / softback
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No one steps up to life’s banquet, holds out her tray, and orders, “Grief, please!†But as a child, Candy Pekkala was served a heaping helping of it.
Every buffet line has a dessert section, however, and when a cousin calls with a Hollywood apartment to sublet, it seems as though Candy is finally offered something sweet.
It’s good-bye to Minnesota and hello to California, where a girl who has always lived by her wits has a real chance of making a living with them.
With that, the irrepressible Lorna Landvik launches her latest irresistible character onto the world stage—or at least onto the dimly lit small stage where stand-up comedy gets its start. Herself a comic performer, Landvik taps her own adventurous past and Minnesota roots to conjure Candy’s life in this strange new Technicolor home.
Her fellow tenants at Peyton Hall include a female bodybuilder, a ruined nightclub impresario, and a well-connected Romanian fortune-teller.
There are game show appearances and temp jobs at a record company and an establishment suspiciously like the Playboy Mansion, and of course the alluring but not always welcoming stage of stand-up comedy.
As she hones her act, Candy is tested by humiliation, hecklers, and the inherent sexism that insists “chicks aren’t funny.â€Written with the light touch and quiet wisdom that have made her works so popular, this is classic Lorna Landvik—sometimes so funny, you’ll cry; sometimes so sad, you might as well laugh; and always impossible to put down.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:312 pages
- Publisher:University of Minnesota Press
- Publication Date:01/09/2015
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- ISBN:9780816698974
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:312 pages
- Publisher:University of Minnesota Press
- Publication Date:01/09/2015
- Category:
- ISBN:9780816698974