Cate Burns

Real Life - Real Laughs

Humor When You Need It Most

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Cate Burns' latest book, Real - Life Real Laughs: Humor When You Need It Most consists of 38 non-fiction vignettes of heartfelt humor that explore drama, vulnerability and adventure from an absurd and quirky point of view. She highlights four themes. Part One, Through the Needle's Eye, examines adjustment: to someone else's toilet habits, to living with no testosterone or estrogen, to feeling a ghost's power over her, to making friends with a large spider. Part Two: Friends? ponders the mysteries of friendship, from people who over-confide to a wild seal who rejects Burns' companionship, to bad communication with a young child. She compares four close relationships with males named Henry. In Part Three, Keeping Sane, Mostly, Burns investigates the limits of experience: fun ways to die, coloring all her clothes and bed sheets red, what happens to noses in dark rooms, and a Countess hairdresser. Being Brave or Not, Part Four, wonders what courage consists of in situations such as: jumping off a cliff, painting a stadium with boxing gloves, or being hooked on bad relationships. She also reveals a dentist's hidden secret. Burns expands personal, non-fiction humor, broadening the base from David Sedaris, Curtis Sittenfeld, Mary Karr, and Augusten Burroughs. In the tradition of authors such as Shel Silverstein, Bill Mauldin, Herman Hesse, William Blake and JRR Tolkien, Burns illustrates many vignettes with her original paintings, drawings or family photos, all in color.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: National League of American Pen Women, Inc.
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 269g
• ISBN-13: 9781950251162
• ISBN-10: 1950251160
• Artikelnr.: 73815596

Autorenporträt

Real Life - Real Laughs: Humor When You Need It Most, Cate Burns' collection of 38 humorous vignettes, has its roots in her childhood "Daily Diary," a padded pink vinyl diary with a well-used lock and key. She has continued journaling life's joys and absurdities to the present. This rich material, combined with Burns' family tradition of humor, both dark and light, inspires her ongoing explorations. Burns illustrates many vignettes with her original paintings, drawings and family photos. She honors (or defames) the lineage in her maternal family that dates to the Scottish poet Robert Burns. The author lectures and teaches internationally at universities in Prague, The Czech Republic, New York City, Los Angeles and many other cities. She has received grants and awards such as the Elizabeth Morse Genius Foundation Award and the Wu & Elsie Ject-Key Memorial Award, National Association of Women Artists, New York City; and The Twentieth Century Award for Achievement and the International Woman of the Year Award from the International Biographical Centre, London. She has won first place awards in the London Book Festival, the Amsterdam Book Festival and the Paris Book Festival, the national Lorrin Tarr Gill Writing Competition and the Pacific Rim Book Festival. Past published works include an Opinion Editorial in the San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco, California; Opinion/Editorial columnist, OUR TURN, Tahoe World newspaper chain in Northern Nevada and Eastern California; and a book of humorous essays, Libido Tsunami: Awash with the Droll in Life (2016, Savant Books and Publications).