Overview
In ""Openly Bob,"" Bob Smith offers his own original, whine-free perspective on being grown up and gay. From bringing your boyfriend home to your father's funeral, to being the only gay couple at a family wedding, to surviving couples counseling, Smith's unique point of view on the very ordinary events of our lives resonates with keen observation and hilarious truth. Sex education, meteor showers, lesbian ventriloquist dummies, flea-market shopping, body piercing, pot-smoking drag queens, environmental correctness, Judgment Day, Samuel Beckett, Newt Gingrich, Coco Chanel, Sigmund Freud - nothing and no one has been spared Bob Smith's incisive eye in this very human collection of comic essays - from a writer who knows how to serve up a truly fresh slice of American pie.
Full Product Details
Author: Bob Smith
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Imprint: Avon Books
Dimensions:
Width: 13.30cm
, Height: 1.90cm
, Length: 21.00cm
Weight: 0.227kg
ISBN: 9780380732005
ISBN 10: 0380732009
Pages: 262
Publication Date: 01 February 1999
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
""Bob Smith is a real writer...a trusty and tart guide, and as you'd suspect, a master of the one-line observation...But what readers, gay and straight, will really appreciate are the direct approach and the eye for detail that make this book a touchingly personal document. Smith brings a sensibility and a sensitivity that make this one of the most rewarding gay books of the year."" --Lambda Book Report""Hilarious.""--Entertainment Weekly.""Emotionally powerful, obviously honest...a true heart and a very funny one as well."" --San Francisco Chronicle""OPENLY BOB is a dazzlingly funny, semiautobiographical, hardcover one-man show.""--Paper""Bob Smith is that rare phenomenon: a hilarious gentile. OPENLY BOB is his wickedly funny diary...Not only is this book entertaining and touching, but it also includes perhaps the finest Lucille Ball anecdote of our time."" --Paul Rudnick
Bob Smith is a real writer...a trusty and tart guide, and as you'd suspect, a master of the one-line observation...But what readers, gay and straight, will really appreciate are the direct approach and the eye for detail that make this book a touchingly personal document. Smith brings a sensibility and a sensitivity that make this one of the most rewarding gay books of the year. --Lambda Book Report Hilarious. --Entertainment Weekly. Emotionally powerful, obviously honest...a true heart and a very funny one as well. --San Francisco Chronicle OPENLY BOB is a dazzlingly funny, semiautobiographical, hardcover one-man show. --Paper Bob Smith is that rare phenomenon: a hilarious gentile. OPENLY BOB is his wickedly funny diary...Not only is this book entertaining and touching, but it also includes perhaps the finest Lucille Ball anecdote of our time. --Paul Rudnick
Author Information
Bob Smith is the author of Growing Up Gay, written with the Funny Gay Males, which was nominated for a Lambda Award. He tours extensively, performing across the country, and has written for numerous television shows, including Roseanne's, Saturday Night Special, and the MTV Video Awards. Smith is set to star in a new gay sketch-comedy series, coproduced by the CBC and Showtime, for which he will write and perform. Raised in Buffalo, New York, he now lives in Los Angeles with his boyfriend, Tom. You can E-mail Bob at bobscomedy@aol.com.
