Guts
The Endless Follies and Tiny Triumphs of a Giant Disaster
Published on 13. March 2012
288 pages
978-1-4516-3507-2 (ISBN)
Description
The New York Times bestseller?a harrowing and hysterical memoir by the two-time Emmy Award-winning actress from the hit television show 3rd Rock from the Sun.
?It felt like I was speeding on the Autobahn toward hell, trapped inside a DeLorean with no brakes. And even if I could somehow stop, I'd still be screwed, because there's no way I'd ever be able to figure out how to open those insane, cocaine-designed doors.?
Actress Kristen Johnston has written her first book, a surprisingly raw and triumphant memoir that is outrageous, moving, sweet, tragic, and heartbreakingly honest. Guts is a true achievement?a memoir that manages to be as frank and revealing as Augusten Burroughs, yet as hilarious and witty as David Sedaris. Johnston takes us on a journey so truthful and relatable, so remarkably fresh, it promises to stay with you for a long, long time.
?It felt like I was speeding on the Autobahn toward hell, trapped inside a DeLorean with no brakes. And even if I could somehow stop, I'd still be screwed, because there's no way I'd ever be able to figure out how to open those insane, cocaine-designed doors.?
Actress Kristen Johnston has written her first book, a surprisingly raw and triumphant memoir that is outrageous, moving, sweet, tragic, and heartbreakingly honest. Guts is a true achievement?a memoir that manages to be as frank and revealing as Augusten Burroughs, yet as hilarious and witty as David Sedaris. Johnston takes us on a journey so truthful and relatable, so remarkably fresh, it promises to stay with you for a long, long time.
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Person
Kristen Johnston is an actress, a teacher, and now a celebrated writer. She is one of the founding executive directors of SLAM, and she splits her time between New York City and Los Angeles.
Content
- Intro
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Chapter One: I See Nothing, I Hear Nothing
- Chapter Two: The Freak Has Landed
- Chapter Three: Anyone but Me
- Chapter Four: Ye Olde Elvis Catnap
- Chapter Five: The English Patient
- Chapter Six: Dying Is Easy, Living Is Hard
- Chapter Seven: Blink
- Chapter Eight: I Think We're Alone Now
- Chapter Nine: The Suffolk Strangler
- Chapter Ten: The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come
- Chapter Eleven: Papillon
- Chapter Twelve: Pretty Ugly
- Chapter Thirteen: Welcome to the Planet of the Apes
- Epilogue
- Thanks . . .
- Photo Descriptions
- About Kristen Johnston
- Copyright
