Presto!: How I Made Over 100 Pounds Disappear and Other Magical Tales - Softcover

Jillette, Penn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1501139525 ISBN 13: 9781501139529

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 2017

Synopsis

Penn Jillette’s New York Times bestselling account of his “extremely funny and somewhat profane journey to discovering a healthy lifestyle...that will motivate others to seek weight-loss solutions” (The Washington Post).

More than three hundred and thirty pounds and saddled with a systolic blood pressure reading at dangerous heights, legendary magician Penn Jillette found himself at a crossroads. He needed a drastic lifestyle change if wanted to see his small children grow up. Enter Crazy Ray. A former NASA scientist and unconventional, passionate innovator, Ray Cronise changed Penn Jillette’s life with his wild “potato diet.”

In Presto, Jillette takes us along on his journey from skepticism to the inspiring, life-changing momentum that transformed the magician’s body and mind. He describes the process in hilarious detail, as he performs his Las Vegas show, takes meetings with Hollywood executives, hangs out with his celebrity friends and fellow eccentric performers, all while remaining a dedicated husband and father. Throughout, he weaves in his views on sex, religion, and pop culture, making his story a refreshing, genre-busting account. Outspoken, frank, and bitingly clever, Presto is an incisive, rollicking read. In the end, it is “undeniably inspiring” (Booklist).

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Review:

Praise for GOD, NO!
Penn Jillette is a 21st-century Lordof Misrule: big, boisterously anarchic, funny, Rabelaisian, impossible andunique. There isn't couldn't be better not be anybody like him. --Richard Dawkins, bestselling author ofThe Greatest Show on Earth and The God Delusion"

There are few people in the country who question more boldly, brashly and bravely than my friend Penn Jillette. This book is funny, provocative and profane. But is it right? God, no! --Glenn Beck"

"People who say that libertarians have no heart or atheists have no soul need to read this book. Because Penn Jillette has a lot of both."--Matt Stone and Trey Parker, creators of South Park and award-winning Broadway musical The Book of Mormon

"Jillette has made a career as a provocateur, and it is tempting to dismiss this book as another piece of carny shtick, but there is a forceful intelligence at work here that demands to be taken seriously. He has shaped his argument with care."--Daniel Stashower, Washington Post Book World

Praise for GOD, NO!
Penn Jillette is a 21st-century Lordof Misrule: big, boisterously anarchic, funny, Rabelaisian, impossible andunique. There isn't couldn't be better not be anybody like him. --Richard Dawkins, bestselling author ofThe Greatest Show on Earth and The God Delusion"

This planet has yielded exactly one mutual friend for Glenn Beck and me and that friend has written a brilliant book called God, No!. Penn reveals the big secret of magic, tells you why tattoos are perfect expressions of atheism and exactly what to eat when you know you're going to vomit later. --Lawrence O Donnell"

"This hugely entertaining book chronicles Jillette's weight-loss odyssey, but it really does much more than that...funny and profane...undeniably inspiring."--Booklist

"Penn Jillette of the comedy-magic duo Penn and Teller holds nothing back in 'Presto!' as he describes how he lost almost a third of himself in a rather unconventional way. Using honesty and humor, he takes readers on his journey to discovering a healthy lifestyle....Jillette has written an extremely funny and somewhat profane book that will motivate others to seek weight-loss solutions."--ASSOCIATED PRESS (AP)

Praise for GOD, NO!
"Penn Jillette is a 21st-century Lordof Misrule: big, boisterously anarchic, funny, Rabelaisian, impossible--andunique. There isn't--couldn't be--better not be--anybody like him."--Richard Dawkins, bestselling author ofThe Greatest Show on Earth and The God Delusion

"There are few people in the country who question more boldly, brashly and bravely than my friend Penn Jillette. This book is funny, provocative and profane. But is it right? God, no!"--Glenn Beck

About the Author:

Penn Jillette is a cultural phenomenon as a solo personality and as half of the world-famous Emmy Award­-winning magic duo Penn & Teller. His solo exposure is enormous: from Howard Stern to Glenn Beck to the Op-Ed pages of The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and the Los Angeles Times. He has appeared on Dancing with the Stars, MTV Cribs, and Chelsea Lately and hosted the NBC game show Identity. As part of Penn & Teller, he has appeared more than twenty times on David Letterman, as well as on several other TV shows, from The Simpsons and Friends to Top Chef and The View. He cohosts the controversial series Penn & Teller: Bullshit!, which has been nominated for sixteen Emmy Awards. He is currently cohost of the Discovery Channel's Penn & Teller Tell a Lie and the author of God, No! and Presto.

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1501139525
• ISBN 13: 9781501139529
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368