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Title: The Joker
Author: Andrew Hudgins
Narrator: Jeff Cummings
Format: Unabridged
Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
Language: English
Release date: 06-11-13
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs
Summary:
Since Andrew Hudgins was a child, he was a compulsive joke teller, so when he sat down to write about jokes, he found that he was writing about himself what jokes taught him and mistaught him, how they often delighted him but occasionally made him nervous with their delight in chaos and sometimes anger. Because Hudginss father, a West Point graduate, served in the US Air Force, his family moved frequently; he learned to relate to other kids by telling jokes and watching how his classmates responded. And jokes opened him up to the serious, taboo subjects that his family didnt talk about openly religion, race, sex, and death. Hudgins tells and analyzes the jokes that explore the contradictions in the Baptist religion he was brought up in, the jokes that told him what his parents would not tell him about sex, and the racist jokes that his uncle loved, his father hated, and his mother, caught in the middle, was ambivalent about. This audiobook is both a memoir and a meditation on jokes and how they educated, delighted, and occasionally horrified him as he grew.
©2013 Andrew Hudgins (P)2013 Brilliance Audio, Inc.
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