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Rain Pryor
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Jokes My Father Never Taught Me: Life, Love, and Loss with Richard Pryor |
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No copies available |
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Hardcover |
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224 |
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2006-11-01 |
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B000ULVLC0 |
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HarperEntertainment |
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0.95 pounds |
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6.2 x 8.9 x 0.9 inches |
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1 Ayana (USA: VA) |
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1 Maureen (USA: MI) |
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Product Description
A loving yet brutally honest memoir by the daughter of comedy legend Richard Pryor Rain Pryor was born in the idealistic, free-love 1960s. Her mother was a Jewish go-go dancer who wanted a -tribe of rainbow children,- and her father was Richard Pryor, perhaps the most compelling and brilliant comedian of his era. In this intimate, harrowing, and often hilarious memoir, Rain depicts a disturbing childhood in the shadow of her celebrated father. Rain-s memoir is a complicated all-American tale: She embraced her African-American heritage while she longed to be part of the Jewish family perplexed by her mother-s fascination with minority culture. She was equally at home shopping with her mother for bargain brisket and flying to France with her father. Her home life was infused with drugs and sex; at age eight she sat down to Thanksgiving dinner with the words, -Daddy, the whores need to be paid.- Jokes My Father Never Taught Me is both lovingly told and painfully frank: the story of a girl who grew up adoring her father even as she feared him-and feared for him, as his drug problems grew worse. In 1980 he was nearly killed in a -revolutionary suicide attempt--the explosion of cocaine and ether that he told his daughter was an -explosion of milk and cookies.- And in his later years, as he succumbed to multiple sclerosis, Rain saw her father reduced to watching the Comedy Channel for hours on end.
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