The Choke Artist: Confessions of a Chronic Underachiever
Autor David Yooen Limba Engleză Paperback – 18 iun 2012
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780446573450
ISBN-10: 0446573450
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 134 x 203 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.22 kg
Editura: Grand Central Publishing
Colecția Grand Central Publishing
ISBN-10: 0446573450
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 134 x 203 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.22 kg
Editura: Grand Central Publishing
Colecția Grand Central Publishing
Notă biografică
David
Yoo
is
the
author
of
two
YA
novels,Girls
for
Breakfast(Delacorte,
2005)
andStop
Me
If
You've
Heard
This
One
Before(Hyperion,
2008).
They
have
received
numerous
awards
including
NYPL
Best
Book
Teen
Age
Selection
and
Chicago
Public
Library's
"Best
of
the
Best".
His
fiction
and
non-fiction
have
been
published
in
various
journals,
he
writes
a
monthly
column
called
"The
World
According
to
Dave,"
for
Koream
Journal,
the
largest
Asian
American
magazine
in
the
U.S.
Recenzii
"THE
CHOKE
ARTIST
is
brilliantly
sneaky.
David
Yoo
is
so
funny
that
sometimes
you
forget
he's
writing
about
his
(and
America's)
deepest,
most
basic
fears.
In
a
country
that
worships
success,
failure
is
taboo.
Yoo
embraces
it
head-on,
his
humor
leavening
yet
never
concealing
the
pain
of
not
having
enough
faith
in
oneself."—Stewart
O'Nan,
author
ofEmily,
AloneandThe
Odds
I loved this book and couldn't put it down! It's raw, startling, laugh-out-loud funny-and ultimately about the irrepressible human spirit.—Amy Chua, Yale Law Professor and author of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
"An admitted rug-humping, shrimpy, underachieving choke artist, David Yoo confesses his deepest darkest, hilariously unattractive and sadly relatable truths. And in turn, sets us all free."—Hilary Winston, author of My Boyfriend Wrote a Book About Me and writer for Community and Happy Endings
"Reading THE CHOKE ARTIST is like watching someone get kicked in the nuts-in a good way. Yoo makes us laugh and wince and relive the horrific, hilarious agony of being young."—Annie Choi, author of Happy Birthday or Whatever
[Starred review] Yoo (Stop Me If You've Heard This One Before) is a gifted YA novelist and comic writer who, by his own recollection, has spent his entire life purposefully underachieving in important moments. From struggles with popularity in kindergarten, to the delicate social battles of high school, to the development of his writing career, Yoo has repeatedly self-sabotaged while on the cusp of potential success. But just as readers are ready to dismiss him as a perennial screw-up, he deftly brings his experiences back to the rawness of his family struggles and he articulates that rarest of memoir experiences: a truly poignant, unexpected epiphany. Yoo shares his stories with candor, and the range of topics-sexuality, work, sibling rivalry, body image issues, and ethnic identity-means readers will never get bored. The essays are well-paced, the delivery is always punchy, and Yoo makes for a sympathetic protagonist. Though at times the themes feel repetitive, it is really more that (like all things in life) his issues overlap. In exorcising these demons, Yoo has crafted a fantastic memoir that will have readers laughing throughout.—Publisher's Weekly
Yoo, author of two successful young-adult novels, now proves himself adept, as well, at the autobiographical essay, as this collection of 10 such pieces amply demonstrates. Set mainly during his college years at Skidmore and the 20 years that follow, the essays offer a self-image as a diffident, self-deprecating, well, choke artist, who is positively gifted at snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. Yoo is what he wryly calls "that rarity, the underachieving Asian-American" (he's Korean). This manifests itself in various ways: getting bad grades in school, choosing to lose at tennis while appearing to be trying to win, being the last to learn the truth about his preternaturally cheerful college roommate, etc. The book takes on a poignant air when he writes about his failed relationship with his father and concludes with the most interesting essay in the book, about the frustrations of trying to become a writer while working-almost permanently-as a temp! Sometimes a bit slow, this crossover title nevertheless succeeds in its portrait of the author as a young (choke) artist.
—Booklist
I loved this book and couldn't put it down! It's raw, startling, laugh-out-loud funny-and ultimately about the irrepressible human spirit.—Amy Chua, Yale Law Professor and author of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
"An admitted rug-humping, shrimpy, underachieving choke artist, David Yoo confesses his deepest darkest, hilariously unattractive and sadly relatable truths. And in turn, sets us all free."—Hilary Winston, author of My Boyfriend Wrote a Book About Me and writer for Community and Happy Endings
"Reading THE CHOKE ARTIST is like watching someone get kicked in the nuts-in a good way. Yoo makes us laugh and wince and relive the horrific, hilarious agony of being young."—Annie Choi, author of Happy Birthday or Whatever
[Starred review] Yoo (Stop Me If You've Heard This One Before) is a gifted YA novelist and comic writer who, by his own recollection, has spent his entire life purposefully underachieving in important moments. From struggles with popularity in kindergarten, to the delicate social battles of high school, to the development of his writing career, Yoo has repeatedly self-sabotaged while on the cusp of potential success. But just as readers are ready to dismiss him as a perennial screw-up, he deftly brings his experiences back to the rawness of his family struggles and he articulates that rarest of memoir experiences: a truly poignant, unexpected epiphany. Yoo shares his stories with candor, and the range of topics-sexuality, work, sibling rivalry, body image issues, and ethnic identity-means readers will never get bored. The essays are well-paced, the delivery is always punchy, and Yoo makes for a sympathetic protagonist. Though at times the themes feel repetitive, it is really more that (like all things in life) his issues overlap. In exorcising these demons, Yoo has crafted a fantastic memoir that will have readers laughing throughout.—Publisher's Weekly
Yoo, author of two successful young-adult novels, now proves himself adept, as well, at the autobiographical essay, as this collection of 10 such pieces amply demonstrates. Set mainly during his college years at Skidmore and the 20 years that follow, the essays offer a self-image as a diffident, self-deprecating, well, choke artist, who is positively gifted at snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. Yoo is what he wryly calls "that rarity, the underachieving Asian-American" (he's Korean). This manifests itself in various ways: getting bad grades in school, choosing to lose at tennis while appearing to be trying to win, being the last to learn the truth about his preternaturally cheerful college roommate, etc. The book takes on a poignant air when he writes about his failed relationship with his father and concludes with the most interesting essay in the book, about the frustrations of trying to become a writer while working-almost permanently-as a temp! Sometimes a bit slow, this crossover title nevertheless succeeds in its portrait of the author as a young (choke) artist.
—Booklist