A Carlin Home Companion: Growing Up with George

ISBN: 1250105765

Author: Carlin, Kelly

Condition: Used

From the daughter of the iconoclastic comedic performer, Kelly Carlins memoir A Carlin Home Companion: Growing Up with George is written in the DNA of a Carlin, honest, biting, savage, funny, sad, dark, and profoundHold on; like George Carlin, this book gives you a hell of a ride (New York Times bestselling author and multi-award-winning comedian Lewis Black).Truly the voice of a generation, George Carlin gave the world some of the most hysterical and iconic comedy routines of the last fifty years. From the Seven Dirty Words and A Place for My Stuff, to Religion is Bullshit and The American Dream, he perfected the art of making audiences double over with laughter while simultaneously making people wake up to the realities (and insanities) of life in the twentieth century.Few people glimpsed the inner life of this beloved comedian, but his only child, Kelly, was there to see it all. Born at the very beginning of his decades-long career in comedy, she slid around the old Dodge Dart, as he and wife Brenda drove around the country to hell gigs. She witnessed his transformation in the 70s, as he fought back against-and talked back to-the establishment; she even talked him down from a really bad acid trip a time or two (Kelly, the sun has exploded and we have eight, no-seven and a half minutes to live!).Kelly not only watched her father constantly reinvent himself and his comedy, but also had a front row seat to the roller coaster turmoil of her familys inner life-alcoholism, cocaine addiction, life-threatening health scares, and a crushing debt to the IRS. But having been the only adult in her family prepared her little for the task of her own adulthood. All the while, Kelly sought to define her own voice as she separated from the shadow of her fathers genius.With rich humor and deep insight, Kelly Carlin pulls back the curtain on what it was like to grow up as the daughter of one of the most recognizable comedians of our time, and become a woman in her own right. This vivid, hilarious, heartbreaking story is at once singular and universal-it is a contemplation of what it takes to move beyond the legacy of childhood, and forge a life of your own.