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FROM THE PUBLISHER:
Every time Allie Brosh posts something new on her hugely popular
blog Hyperbole and a Half the internet rejoices.
Touching, absurd, and darkly comic, Allie Brosh's highly
anticipated book "Hyperbole and a Half "showcases her unique voice,
leaping wit, and her ability to capture complex emotions with
deceptively simple illustrations.
This full-color, beautifully illustrated edition features more than
fifty percent new content, with ten never-before-seen essays and
one wholly revised and expanded piece as well as classics from the
website like, "The God of Cake," "Dogs Don't Understand Basic
Concepts Like Moving," and her astonishing, "Adventures in
Depression," and "Depression Part Two," which have been hailed as
some of the most insightful meditations on the disease ever
written.
Brosh's debut marks the launch of a major new American humorist who
will surely make even the biggest scrooge or snob laugh. We dare
you not to.
FROM THE AUTHOR:
This is a book I wrote. Because I wrote it, I had to figure out
what to put on the back cover to explain what it is. I tried to
write a long, third-person summary that would imply how great the
book is and also sound vaguely authoritative--like maybe someone
who isn't me wrote it--but I soon discovered that I'm not sneaky
enough to pull it off convincingly. So I decided to just make a
list of things that are in the book:
Pictures
Words
Stories about things that happened to me
Stories about things that happened to other people because of
me
Eight billion dollars*
Stories about dogs
The secret to eternal happiness*
*These are lies. Perhaps I have underestimated my sneakiness
*THE NO.1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* For the first time in seven
years, Allie Brosh, the creator of the immensely popular blog
'Hyperbole and a Half' and #1 New York Times bestselling author,
returns with her new collection. Solutions and Other Problems
includes humorous stories from Allie Brosh's childhood; the
adventures of her very bad animals; merciless dissection of her own
character flaws; incisive essays on grief, loneliness, and
powerlessness; as well as reflections on the absurdity of modern
life. This full-colour, beautifully illustrated edition features
all-new material with more than 1,600 pieces of art. Solutions and
Other Problems marks the return of a beloved American humourist who
has "the observational skills of a scientist, the creativity of an
artist, and the wit of a comedian" (Bill Gates). Praise for Allie
Brosh's Hyperbole and a Half: 'A hilarious collection' Mashable
'Will certainly help you, should you perhaps decide to indulge in a
spot of "self-gifting" in this instance, survive Christmas with
your more crazed relatives' Rachel Cooke, Observer 'It's impossible
not to warm to cartoonist and blogger Allie. If she doesn't get to
you with her funny childhood anecdotes (eating an entire birthday
cake) then her honest reflections on depression will' Grazia
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