Vacationland : True Stories fr Painful Beaches by John Hodgman [2017, HC] Signed

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Signed By
John Hodgman
Illustrator
Yes
Signed
Yes
Personalized
No
Inscribed
No
Edition
First Edition
ISBN
9780735224803
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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0735224803
ISBN-13
9780735224803
eBay Product ID (ePID)
234388428

Product Key Features

Book Title
Vacationland : True Stories from Painful Beaches
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2017
Topic
Topic / Travel, United States / Northeast / New England (Ct, mA, Me, NH, Ri, VT), Personal Memoirs, Literary, Entertainment & Performing Arts, Form / Essays
Genre
Travel, Biography & Autobiography, Humor
Author
John Hodgman
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
14.1 Oz
Item Length
8.4 in
Item Width
5.8 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2017-031760
Reviews
Praise for John Hodgman and his work: "Wonderfully absurd." -- The New York Times "Hilarious . . . Nabokov's Pale Fire as directed by Wes Anderson." -- Time Out New York "If Borges and Ben Franklin got drunk and decided to write a book together, the result might have been something a lot like this." -- Tom Perrotta "A book of absurd tall tales, tables and charts spun from the warped brain of John Hodgman . . . Impressively eclectic."-- Los Angeles Times, Praise for John Hodgman and his work: "Wonderfully absurd." -- The New York Times "Hilarious . . . Nabokov's Pale Fire as directed by Wes Anderson." -- Time Out New York "If Borges and Ben Franklin got drunk and decided to write a book together, the result might have been something a lot like this." -- Tom Perrotta "A book of absurd tall tales, tables and charts spun from the warped brain of John Hodgman . . . Impressively eclectic." -- Los Angeles Times, Praise for Vacationland "Outside of these pages, you will not find a more tender irony, a gentler wickedness, a more perfect tone, a regard more unflinching and forgiving. At some point, long after I gave up resisting the near-constant impulse to laugh out loud, I came to the realization that with Vacationland , Hodgman has established himself as a memoirist and, unquestionably, a master prose stylist, of rare power and restraint." --Michael Chabon "This book is genuinely it-will-make-you-laugh funny, it is a wistful and sad examination of the impulse that causes us to move to out of the way places and of what John Hodgman found when he went there, and it is always wiser than it seems. If you do not read it, you will be missing out on something special." --Neil Gaiman "I love everything about this hilarious book except the font size . . . can a fella get a 16 point Helvetica up in this thing." --Jon Stewart "Now I know why John Hodgman was always making up so many facts--the truth of his life is so painful and hilarious. Who can blame him? Get nice and pre-cringed and dive into Vacationland ." --Patton Oswalt "This here yarn has everything you want--laughs, love, death, and the obligatory legume-shaped boat. Hodgman's wide-eyed sense of place is as irresistible as his playful yet unflinching sense of self." --Sarah Vowell, bestselling author of Lafayette in the Somewhat United States "I love this book. I love it unreservedly. . . . It's the sort of book I get preemptively defensive about: 'Show me the guy who doesn't like this book,' my inner monologue runs. 'Show him to me, that I may mock him for his lousy sense of humor and his inability to know good prose when he sees it.'" --John Darnielle, bestselling author of Universal Harvester and primary member of the Mountain Goats "John Hodgman is a literary wizard, an imaginative humorist, and a true man of mystery. Everything he writes is an adventure. Vacationland just happens to be his most fabulous work to date." --Jonathan Scott, co-host of HGTV's "Property Brothers" "John Hodgman thinks we're rubes, trying to convince us he's some unlovable fraud or a post-post Dick Cavett. But his wondrous Vacationland proves the truth: he is a man from the future sent here to save us with comedic metaphors, relishable scoldings, and neoclassic wit. All of these things are good for you. As is this book." --Brad Meltzer, bestselling author of The Escape Artist "John Hodgman returns to the page with a humorous, yet sincere look at his time spent on the beaches of Maine and his trek through middle age. . . . With a dry wit and ample amounts of self-depreciation, Hodgman offers a humorous take on adulthood and the harsh, unforgiving beaches of eastern Maine." --Charleston City Paper "Hodgman's new book--a memoir about fatherhood, aging, travel, and his home state of Massachusetts--is the most (maybe the first) unironic thing in his career." --The Millions "Very dry, with a twist." --Kirkus Reviews "Hodgman is a disarmingly witty storyteller, at once waggish and incisive, droll and tender. Indeed, deep feelings flow beneath the mirth." --Booklist "Comedian Hodgman skews sincere with this collection of essays on middle age, fatherhood, and the natural attractions of New England." --Vulture "The twists of mordant, off-kilter comedy make for entertaining excursions." --Publishers Weekly
Synopsis
"I love everything about this hilarious book except the font size." --Jon Stewart Although his career as a bestselling author and on The Daily Show With Jon Stewart was founded on fake news and invented facts, in 2016 that routine didn't seem as funny to John Hodgman anymore. Everyone is doing it now. Disarmed of falsehood, he was left only with the awful truth: John Hodgman is an older white male monster with bad facial hair, wandering like a privileged Sasquatch through three wildernesses: the hills of Western Massachusetts where he spent much of his youth; the painful beaches of Maine that want to kill him (and some day will); and the metaphoric haunted forest of middle age that connects them. Vacationland collects these real life wanderings, and through them you learn of the horror of freshwater clams, the evolutionary purpose of the mustache, and which animals to keep as pets and which to kill with traps and poison. There is also some advice on how to react when the people of coastal Maine try to sacrifice you to their strange god. Though wildly, Hodgmaniacally funny as usual, it is also a poignant and sincere account of one human facing his forties, those years when men in particular must stop pretending to be the children of bright potential they were and settle into the failing bodies of the wiser, weird dads that they are., Vacationland is also about Hodgman's wandering in the metaphoric wilderness of his forties, those years when dudes especially must painfully stop pretending to be the children of bright potential they were and settle into the failing bodies of the wiser, weirder dads that they are. Other subjects covered include the horror of freshwater clams, the evolutionary purpose of the mustache, which animals to keep as pets and which to kill with traps and poison, and advice on how to react when the people of coastal Maine try to sacrifice you to their strange god. After three bestselling books of fake facts, Hodgman is finally ready to tell the truth-in the same outlandish, audacious, and inimitable style that has won him fans in every medium he has worked- books, stage, social media, television, and movies. Praise for John Hodgman and his work-
LC Classification Number
PS3608.O346V33 2017

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