(Not That You Asked): Rants, Exploits, and Obsessions
Language: English
Published by Random House, New York, 2007
- First Edition
- Signed
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Idler Fine Books, Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.Idler Fine Books
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First printing of the stated first edition. Signed by Steve Almond directly on the half-title page; additionally, Almond wrote: "I F**ked Condi / Steve Almond." Faint toning to page margins, else book and dust jacket in fine, as new condition.
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- Title
- (Not That You Asked): Rants, Exploits, and Obsessions
- Author
- Almond, Steve
- Publisher
- Random House, New York
- Publication year
- 2007
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- Fine
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1400066190
- ISBN 13
- 9781400066193
- Illustrator
- Erin Almond (Author's Photo); Lynn Buckley
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Printing
- 1st Printing
- Seller catalogs
- Comedy, Memoirs / Biographies, Prose / Essays
Almond on personal grooming: “Why, exactly, did I feel it would be ‘sexy’ and ‘hot’ to have my girlfriend wax my chest? I can offer no good answer to this question today. I could offer no good answer at the time.”
On sports: “To be a fan is to live in a condition of willed helplessness. We are (for the most part) men who sit around and watch other men run and leap and sweat and grapple each other. It is a deeply homoerotic pattern of conduct, often interracial in nature, and essentially humiliating.”
On popular culture: “I have never actually owned a TV, a fact I mention whenever possible, in the hopes that it will make me seem noble and possibly lead to oral sex.”
On his literary hero, Kurt Vonnegut: “His books perform the greatest feat of alchemy known to man: the conversion of grief into laughter by means of courageous imagination.”
On religion: “Every year, when Chanukah season rolled around, my brothers and I would make the suburban pilgrimage to the home of our grandparents, where we would ring in the holiday with a big, juicy Chanukah ham.”
The essays in (Not that You Asked) will make you laugh out loud, or, maybe just as likely, hurl the book across the room. Either way, you’ll find Steve Almond savagely entertaining. Not that you asked.
“A pop-culture-saturated intellectual, a kindly grouch, vitriolic Boston Red Sox hater, neurotic new father and Kurt Vonnegut fanatic… [Almond] scores big in every chapter of this must-have collection. Biting humor, honesty, smarts and heart: Vonnegut himself would have been proud.”
—— Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
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