Go the F**k to Sleep

Mansbach, Adam

ISBN 10: 145584165X ISBN 13: 9781455841653

Publisher: Brilliance Audio, 2011

Synopsis

Go the F**k to Sleep is a bedtime book for parents who live in the real world, where a few snoozing kitties and cutesy rhymes don't always send a toddler sailing blissfully off to dreamland. Profane, affectionate, and radically honest, it captures the familiar — and unspoken — tribulations of putting your little angel down for the night. Beautiful, subversive, and pants-wettingly funny, Go the F**k to Sleep is a book for parents new, old, and expectant. You probably should not play this for your children. “A children's book for grown-ups! I really did laugh out loud—hilarious!” –David Byrne, musician, father of one “Finally, someone tells it like it really is. This is no-guilt funny and a godsend!” –Cristina García, author of The Lady Matador's Hotel, mother of one “This is the most honest children's book ever written. F**king hilarious.” –A.J. Jacobs, author of The Year of Living Biblically, father of three “Go the F**k to Sleep is the secret anthem of tired parents everywhere.” –Bliss Broyard, author of One Drop: My Father's Hidden Life, mother of two “Captures the beautiful struggle of being a parent at its rawest point: bedtime.” –Daniel Sinker, author of The F***ing Epic Twitter Quest of @MayorEmanuel, father of one

About this title

Review:

"Total genius" (Jonathan Lethem, author of MOTHERLESS BROOKLYN, father of two)

"Beautiful, brilliant, funny as fuck. A new Contented Little Baby Book for the discontented parent" (Helen Walsh, author of GO TO SLEEP, mother of one)

"This is the most honest children's book ever written. And it's f*cking hilarious" (A.J. Jacobs, author of THE YEAR OF LIVING BIBLICALLY, father of three)

"An instantly recognisable and timeless theme tune for bleary-eyed parents everywhere - a hymn to the horrors of bedtime. Beautifully crafted, rhythmical, affectionate, profane and searingly honest, it is very funny." (Alex Frean Times)

"A gleeful howl of blasphemy ... for the exhausted parent, nudged to the brink of sanity by lack of sleep, GTFTS is more than a reason to snigger - it's a gesture of compassion." (Benjamin Secher Daily Telegraph)

"Bedtime stories will never be the same again" (Viv Groskop The Guardian)

"A children's book for grown-ups! I really did laugh out loud - hilarious!" (David Byrne, musician, father of one)

"The secret anthem of tired parents everywhere" (Bliss Boyard, author of ONE DROP: MY FATHER'S HIDDEN LIFE, mother of two)

"Hilariously funny, it gets the tone bang on - and it's comforting to know bedtime is a universally fraught experience." (News of the World)

"It subverts accepted notions of what is meant by 'good' parenting ... a clever conceit, executed with panache" (The Lady)

Book Description:

The bestselling gift book for exhausted parents everywhere

About this edition

• Publisher: Brilliance Audio
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 145584165X
• ISBN 13: 9781455841653
• Binding: Audio CD