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Start without me : (I'll be there in a minute) / Gary Janetti.

Janetti, Gary, (author.).

Summary:

"Gary Janetti is bothered. By a lot of things. And thank God he's here to tell us. He's bothered that he has to play football in high school gym when he'd rather be in the guidance counselor's office, faking sick and dishing about the latest dramas on his beloved soap operas. He's annoyed when, as a kid growing up in Queens, New York, there's a serial killer loose in his neighborhood, but Carole Burnett is on tv and he really doesn't want to miss it. And don't get him started on how a perfectly planned vacation can be ruined by a bad hotel room. Start Without Me is for anyone who has ever felt like they don't quite fit in. For all of us that have thought, just maybe, those small, petty slights that life flings at us, over and over, are worth getting our feathers ruffled over. A book for any of us that have felt the joy in holding a lifelong grudge. Which is to really say, Start Without Me is for all of us. Janetti turns his acid tongue, and secretly beating heart, to the moments and times that defined him, when, as he writes, "most everything was wonderful. It was only tiny, little things," that stuck like a sharp pebble in a shoe. Deeply poignant, savagely funny, and slyly tender, Start Without Me will have readers wishing it would never end"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781250225856 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: x, 192 pages ; 22 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2022.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:
The Carol Burnett Show -- Teaching little fingers how to play -- J's -- The Wizard of Oz -- Pen pals -- Commencement address -- Sister Wilda -- Christmas -- Tan -- Destination wedding -- Grandma -- Movies -- Village bath club -- Trip Advisor review -- Irene -- Gay restaurant -- A Chorus Line -- Graduation.

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Subject: Janetti, Gary.
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Genre: Biographies.
Autobiographies.
Personal narratives.
Humor.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Innisfil Public Library System. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Lakeshore Branch.

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  • Baker & Taylor
    In this perfect book for any of us who have felt the joy in holding a lifelong grudge, the New York Times best-selling author presents a hilarious, laugh-out-loud collection of true stories about the small moments that add up to a big life. 125,000 first printing.
  • McMillan Palgrave

    The New York Times Bestseller!
    Named one of Vulture's "Best Comedy Books of 2022 (So Far)"

    From New York Times bestselling author, and Family Guy writer Gary Janetti comes Start Without Me, a collection of hilarious, laugh out loud, true life stories about the small moments that add up to a big life.

    Gary Janetti is bothered. By a lot of things. And thank God he’s here to tell us.

    In Start Without Me, Gary returns with his acid tongue firmly in cheek to the moments and times that defined him. He takes us by the hand as we follow him through the summers he spends in his twenties, pursuing both the perfect tan and the perfect man to no avail and much regret. At his Catholic high school, he strikes up an unlikely friendship with a nun who shares Gary's love of soap operas, which becomes a salvation to them both. And don't get him started on how a bad hotel room can ruin even the best vacation. This laugh-out-loud collection of true-life stories from the man “behind his generation’s greatest comedy” (The New York Times) is for anyone who has felt the joy in holding a decade-long grudge.

    Whether you are a new convert to Janetti or one of the million who follow him on social media for a daily laugh, Start Without Me will have you howling at Gary's frustrations and nodding along in agreement at the outrages of life's small slights. It's the literary equivalent of a night out with your funniest friend that you wish would never end.

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