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Jokes My Father Never Taught Me - Life, Love, and Loss with Richard Pryor (Paperback)
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Jokes My Father Never Taught Me - Life, Love, and Loss with Richard Pryor (Paperback)
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The loving yet brutally honest memoir of the daughter of comedy
legend Richard PryorRain Pryor was born in the idealistic,
free-love 1960s. Her mother was a Jewish go-go dancer who wanted a
tribe of rainbow children, and her father was Richard Pryor,
perhaps the most compelling and brilliant comedian of his era.In
this intimate, harrowing, and often hilarious memoir, Rain talks
about her divided heritage, and about the forces that shaped her
wildly schizophrenic childhood. In her father's house, she bonded
with Richard's grandmother, Mamma, a one-time whorehouse madam who
never tired of reminding Rain that she was black. In her mother's
house, and in the home of her Jewish grandparents, Rain was a
"mocha-colored Jewish princess," learning how to cook everything
from kugel to beef brisket.It seemed as if Rain was blessed with
the best of both worlds, but it didn't quite work out that way.
Life at Mom's was unstable in the extreme, while at Richard's place
Rain was exposed to sex and drugs before she had even learned to
read. "Daddy," she told her father one day, sitting down to
Thanksgiving dinner at the advanced age of eight, "the whores need
to be paid." Jokes My Father Never Taught Me is both lovingly told
and painfully frank: the story of a girl who grew up adoring her
father even as she feared him--and feared for him--as his drug
problems grew worse. In 1980 Pryor tried to kill himself by setting
himself on fire, then joked that it had been an accident: "No one
ever told me you couldn't mix cookies with two types of milk!" In
his later years, Pryor succumbed to multiple sclerosis, and Rain
watched in tears as her father became a shell of his former self.
Once, in an unusually introspective mood, Pryor asked his daughter,
"Why do you love me, Rainy, when I can be so mean?" Jokes My Father
Never Taught Me answers that poignant question and many more. It is
an unprecedented look at the life of a legend of comedy, told by a
daughter who both understood the genius and knew the tortured man
within.
General
Imprint: |
HarperCollins Publishers
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
October 2007 |
First published: |
October 2007 |
Authors: |
Rain Pryor
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Dimensions: |
229 x 153 x 15mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
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Pages: |
224 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-06-135097-9 |
Categories: |
Books >
Arts & Architecture >
Performing arts >
Television
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LSN: |
0-06-135097-4 |
Barcode: |
9780061350979 |
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