The horrors : an A to Z of funny thoughts on awful things
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- ISBN: 9781771620314 (paperback) :
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222 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm - Publisher: Madeira Park, British Columbia : Douglas & McIntyre, [2015]
- Copyright: ©2015
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Subject: | Canadian wit and humor (English) |
Topic Heading: | Festival of the Written Arts 2018 > Sechelt (B.C.) |
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- Perseus PublishingComedian-author Charlie Demers, whose brain-bending brand of black humor will be familiar to followers of CBC Radioâs The Debaters, offers his madcap perspective in a new collection of essays highlighting a wide range of topics under the heading of Bad Things. The Horrors is presented abecedarian-style, despoiling a beloved childrenâs book tradition in order to explore personal hangups that range from the slightly awkward to the down-right terrible.
Beginning with âAâ for âAdolescence,â Demers recalls his sexless teenage years spent in a Trotskyist sect, and âBâ for âBombingâ offers a first-person account of the agonies of stand-up comedy gone wrong. âEâ for âEnd of the Worldâ explores the wacky world of Preppers (YouTube how-to-prepare-for-the-apocalypse experts), while âFâ for âFatâ explains what life is like for those with both testicles and breasts. Other essays creep toward the pain side of the hilarity/agony line: âDâ for âDepressionâ and âMâ for âMotherlessnessâ traverse topics that more balanced minds might hesitate to make light of.
Fortunately, Demers does not let tact or sensibility deter him from pushing humor to its hysterical limit in order to examine our deepest fears. With artful insight, he never minimizes the very real pain inherent in some topics and uses comedy as a catharsis rather than a numbing agent. Dark, smart and funny, in the sunny world of The Book of Awesome and The Happiness Project, The Horrors will be a shadow . . . or at least a shadow puppet.