{"product_id":"treehab-tales-from-my-natural-wild-life-9780299310509","title":"Treehab: Tales from My Natural, Wild Life","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn this bitingly funny and often surprising memoir, award-winning author and groundbreaking comedian Bob Smith offers a meditation on the vitality of the natural world--and an intimate portrait of his own darkly humorous and profoundly authentic response to a life-changing illness.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eTreehab\u003c\/i\u003e--named after a retreat cabin in rural Ontario--Smith muses how he has \"always sought the path less traveled.\" He rebuffs his diagnosis of ALS as only an unflappable stand-up comic could (\"Lou Gehrig's Disease? But I don't even like baseball!\") and explores his complex, fulfilling experience of fatherhood, both before and after the onset of the disease. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStories of his writing and performing life--punctuated by hilariously cutting jokes that comedians tell only to each other--are interspersed with tales of Smith's enduring relationship with nature: boyhood sojourns in the woods of upstate New York and adult explorations of the remote Alaskan wilderness; snakes and turtles, rocks and minerals; open sky and forest canopy; God and friendship--all recurring touchstones that inspire him to fight for his survival and for the future of his two children. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAiming his potent, unflinching wit at global warming, equal rights, sex, dogs, Thoreau, and more, Smith demonstrates here the inimitable insight that has made him a beloved voice of a generation. He reminds us that life is perplexing, beautiful, strange, and entirely worth celebrating.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Bob Smith\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Wisconsin Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/27\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.80w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780299310509\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/0001\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/30\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBob Smith has won multiple honors for his memoirs \u003ci\u003eOpenly Bob\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWay to Go, Smith\u003c\/i\u003e and his novels \u003ci\u003eSelfish and Perverse\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eRemembrance of Things I Forgot\u003c\/i\u003e. He was the first openly gay comedian to appear on \u003ci\u003eThe Tonight Show\u003c\/i\u003e and among the first to be given his own HBO comedy special. He lives in New York City.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Wisconsin Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":39952737239155,"sku":"0299310507","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_a7aa9d4c-be19-4753-b74b-e945ed4b3d06.jpg?v=1648564650","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/treehab-tales-from-my-natural-wild-life-9780299310509","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}