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Collection: 7-day Books
Call Number: 920 Bamford
Author: Bamford, Maria,
Title: Sure, i'll join your cult :
Remainder of title: a memoir of mental illness and the quest to belong anywhere /
Summary, etc. note: "From "weird, scary, ingenious" (The New York Times) stand-up comedian Maria Bamford, a brutally honest and hilariously frenetic memoir about show business, mental health, and the comfort of rigid belief systems-from Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People, to Suzuki violin training, to Richard Simmons, to 12-step programs. Maria Bamford is a comedian's comedian (an outsider among outsiders) and has forever fought to find a place to belong. From struggling with an eating disorder as a child of the 1980s, to navigating a career in the arts (and medical debt and psychiatric institutionalization), she has tried just about every method possible to not only be a part of the world, but to want to be a part of it. In Bamford's signature voice, Sure, I'll Join Your Cult, brings us on a quest to participate in something. With sincerity and transparency, she recounts every anonymous fellowship she has joined (including but not limited to: Debtors Anonymous, Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous, and Overeaters Anonymous), every hypomanic episode (from worrying about selling out under capitalism to enforcing union rules on her Netflix TV show set to protect her health), and every easy 1-to-3-step recipe for fudge in between. Singular and inimitable, Bamford's memoir explores what it means to keep going, and to be a member of society (or any group she's invited to) despite not being very good at it. In turn, she hopes to transform isolating experiences into comedy that will make you feel less alone (without turning into a cult following)"--

International Standard Book Number: 9781982168568
: (hardcover)
: (ebook)
Canceled/invalid ISBN: 9781982168582
Description conventions: rda
Authentication code: pcc
Geographic area code: n-us---
Classification number: PN2287.B16355
Item number: A3 2023
Edition number: 2/eng/20230522
Classification number: 792.702/8092
Classification number: B
Dates associated with a name: 1970-
Relator term: author.
Statement of responsibility, etc.: Maria Bamford.
Title proper/short title: Sure I will join your cult
Edition statement: First Gallery Books hardcover edition 2023
Place of publication: New York, NY
Name of publisher: Gallery Books
Date of publication: 2023
Projected publication date: 2309
: New York :
: Gallery Books,
: 2023.
Extent: 269 p.; 24 cm.
Other physical details: b/w ill.
: rdacontent
: text
: txt
: rdamedia
: unmediated
: n
: rdacarrier
: volume
: nc
: Provided by publisher.
Source of acquisition: B & T 11/10/2023
Purchase price: $ 28.99
Personal name: Bamford, Maria,
Dates associated with a name: 1970-
Subject: Comedians
Subject: Mentally ill
Form subdivision: Biography.
Form subdivision: Biography.
Geographic subdivision: United States
Geographic subdivision: United States
Main entry heading: Bamford, Maria.
Edition: First Gallery Books hardcover edition 2023
Place, publisher, and date of publication: New York : Gallery Books, 2023
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Title: Sure, i'll join your cult
Record control number: (DLC) 2023008308
International Standard Book Number: 9781982168582
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