Microthrills: True Stories from a Life of Small Highs - Hardcover

Spero, Wendy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1594630194 ISBN 13: 9781594630194

Publisher: Hudson Street Press, 2006

Synopsis

A series of essays about the author's childhood and young adulthood shares her experiences of growing up as the daughter of an overly protective sex therapist mother, her abnormally close relationship with her pot-smoking executive boss, and her addiction to eating candy in bed. 30,000 first printing.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

"Microthrills will make you cringe with glee. Spero takes you inside her peculiar mind and tiny, hilarious world with a brazen vulnerability that is the rare province of truly great humorists. She has a singular and completely warped view of the world, able to find poignancy and jubilation in life's nagging minutiae. David Sedaris watch your back!"
-- Ed Helms, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart

"Funny and touching and insightful. MICROTHRILLS is all about the little highlights of life -- and by the first chapter, I knew it was going to be a highlight of my reading year. I loved this book."
-- A.J. Jacobs, author, The Know-It-All

"Reading MICROTHRILLS is like breathing air -- it feels natural. You don't feel yourself reading. Wendy Spero paints a world both familiar and unique -- so specific that you feel implanted in her moments. What I'm trying to say is I really liked it. And I'm trying to say it in a hoity-toity way."
-- Sarah Silverman

"MICROTHRILLS was a series of micro-orgasms for me, not only in my funny bone, but throughout my brain. I love the magical minutiae of the way Wendy Spero's mind works. This book will be loved, loved, loved by all."
-- Jill Soloway, co-executive producer, Six Feet Under; author, Tiny Ladies in Shiny Pants

"MICROTHRILLS is terrific. Finally, a book for people who think that insects having sex is hot -- which, if they'd come out and admit it, is just about everybody."
-- Andy Borowitz, creator, Borowitzreport.com

About the Author:

Wendy Spero is an award-winning comedian and actress, and author and performer of the acclaimed one-woman show Who's Your Daddy?. She has been featured on NPR, Comedy Central, VHI, and NBC, and in The New Yorker. She has written for Esquire and The New York Times.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hudson Street Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1594630194
• ISBN 13: 9781594630194
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256