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A Carlin Home Companion by Kelly Carlin Book Summary
From the daughter of the iconoclastic comedic performer, Kelly Carlin’s memoir A Carlin Home Companion: Growing Up with George “is written in the DNA of a Carlin, honest, biting, savage, funny, sad, dark, and profound…Hold 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 B******t” 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 family’s 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 father’s 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.
Book Name | A Carlin Home Companion |
Genre | Biographies & Memoirs |
Author | Kelly Carlin |
Published | 15 September 2015, Tuesday |
Language | English |
E-Book Size | 5.62 MB |
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Self serving. I love George Carlin. I imagine writing this was very cathartic for his daughter, Kelly, but for me it was just too much. I cringed at quite a bit of the personal family stuff and I bet Kelly's parents would have too. A hard read that seemed completely selfish. I'm sorry to say but I would not recommend this to anyone. Especially fans of George Carlin.
Swimming in the Sea of Me. Basically I read the first third and last third. Not really interested in a spoiled teenage drug user who wastes her talents and opportunities, turning into an anxiety riddled adult struggling to find her identity. Shows how enabling parents can screw up child’s life. George was a great comedian though.
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The A Carlin Home Companion book written by Kelly Carlin was published on 15 September 2015, Tuesday in the Biographies & Memoirs category. A total of 48 readers of the book gave the book 4 points out of 5.
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