Way to Go, Smith! - Hardcover

Smith, Bob

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ISBN 10: 0688162878 ISBN 13: 9780688162870

Publisher: Rob Weisbach Books, 1999

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The comedian and author recalls growing up gay in Buffalo, New York, scrutinizing his classmates, teachers, family, and relationships with the observant eye of the stand-up comic

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"The great thing about the shareware between a couple is that the network is limited to the two of you", writes humorist Bob Smith in "Wolf Whistling in the Dark", the first chapter in his second collection of interlinked essays. "No one has ever understood me or known me better than Tom but recently we seemed to have forgotten each other's access code." The novella-length examination of the break-up of Smith's long-term relationship is one of the highlights of Way to Go, Smith! But each essay has its gem-like moments. Although some of his epigrammatic quips are gay-specific ("Gay men have a tendency to examine an attractive body almost as if, by some miracle, they might have to identify it later when it turns up in their beds"), Smith's recollections of his childhood experiences at home and school would strike a chord with any reader. His sexuality--and the experiences that stem from it--are combined with these anecdotes in an unapologetic but also unassuming way that teaches all of us to accept Bob Smith just as he is (though it's hard not to like such a handsome and witty guy). --Ron Hogan

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"Like a conversation with an old friend..."Way to Go, Smith! makes you laugh, makes you think, and makes you understand what it is to be Bob."--CNN..".the chuckles expended on the zany humor are haunted by a wispy ghost of regrets for relationship potentials unrealized."--"Booklist

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