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Start without me : (I'll be there in a minute)  Cover Image Book Book

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.
Subject: Janetti, Gary.
Gay men > United States > Biography.
Television producers and directors > United States > Biography.
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.
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Lakeshore Branch. (Show)

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Lakeshore Branch 791.450232092 Janet 31681010275329 NONFIC Available -


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