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Born Standing Up - A Comic's Life (Paperback)
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Born Standing Up - A Comic's Life (Paperback)
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Loot Price R371
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You Save R112 (23%)
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The riveting, mega-bestselling, beloved and highly acclaimed memoir
of a man, a vocation, and an era named one of the ten best
nonfiction titles of 2007 by "Time" and "Entertainment Weekly."
In the mid-seventies, Steve Martin exploded onto the comedy scene.
By 1978 he was the biggest concert draw in the history of stand-up.
In 1981 he quit forever. This book is, in his own words, the story
of "why I did stand-up and why I walked away."
Emmy and Grammy Award-winner, author of the acclaimed "New York
Times" bestsellers "Shopgirl" and "The Pleasure of My Compan"y, and
a regular contributor to "The New Yorker," Martin has always been a
writer. His memoir of his years in stand-up is candid,
spectacularly amusing, and beautifully written.
At age ten Martin started his career at Disneyland, selling
guidebooks in the newly opened theme park. In the decade that
followed, he worked in the Disney magic shop and the Bird Cage
Theatre at Knott's Berry Farm, performing his first magic/comedy
act a dozen times a week. The story of these years, during which he
practiced and honed his craft, is moving and revelatory. The
dedication to excellence and innovation is formed at an
astonishingly early age and never wavers or wanes.
Martin illuminates the sacrifice, discipline, and originality that
made him an icon and informs his work to this day. To be this good,
to perform so frequently, was isolating and lonely. It took Martin
decades to reconnect with his parents and sister, and he tells that
story with great tenderness. Martin also paints a portrait of his
times--the era of free love and protests against the war in
Vietnam, the heady irreverence of "The Smothers Brothers Comedy
Hour" in the late sixties, and the transformative new voice of
"Saturday Night Live" in the seventies.
Throughout the text, Martin has placed photographs, many never seen
before. "Born Standing Up" is a superb testament to the sheer
tenacity, focus, and daring of one of the greatest and most
iconoclastic comedians of all time.
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