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Treehab: Tales from My Natural, Wild Life

Biography / Memoir
Series: Living Out
By: Bob Smith(Author)
208 pages
Treehab: Tales from My Natural, Wild Life
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In 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.

In Treehab – named after a retreat cabin in rural Ontario – Smith muses how he has "always sought the path less travelled". 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.

Stories 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.

Aiming 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.

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Biography

Bob Smith has won multiple honours for his memoirs Openly Bob and Way to Go, Smith and his novels Selfish and Perverse and Remembrance of Things I Forgot. He broke barriers as the first openly gay comedian to appear on The Tonight Show and was featured in his own HBO comedy special. He lives in New York City.

Biography / Memoir
Series: Living Out
By: Bob Smith(Author)
208 pages
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