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People make a mess.
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Marc Maron was a parent-scarred, angst-filled, drug-dabbling, love-starved comedian who dreamed of a simple life: a wife, a home, a sitcom to call his own. But instead he woke up one day to find himself fired from his radio job, surrounded by feral cats, and emotionally and financially annihilated by a divorce from a woman he thought he loved. He tried to heal his broken heart through whatever means he could findโminor-league hoarding, Viagra addiction, accidental racial profiling, cat fancying, flying airplanes with his mindโbut nothing seemed to work. It was only when he was stripped down to nothing that he found his way back.
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Attempting Normal is Marc Maronโs journey through the wilderness of his own mind, a collection of explosively, painfully, addictively funny stories that add up to a moving tale of hope and hopelessness, of failing, flailing, and finding a way. From standup to television to his outrageously popular podcast, WTF with Marc Maron, Marc has always been a genuine original, a disarmingly honest, intensely smart, brutally open comic who finds wisdom in the strangest places. This is his story of the winding, potholed road from madness and obsession and failure to something like normal, the thrillingly comic journey of a sympathetic f***up whoโs trying really hard to do better without making a bigger mess. Most of us will relate.
Praise for Attempting Normal
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โI laughed so hard reading this book.โโDavid Sedaris
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โFunny . . . surprisingly deep . . . laced with revelatory insights.โโLos Angeles Times
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โSuperb . . . A reason that [it] is a superior example of an overcrowded genreโthe comedian memoirโis Mr. Maronโs hardheaded approach to his history, the wisdom of experience.โโThe New York Times
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โMarc Maron is a legend because he is both a great comic and a brilliant mind. Attempting Normal is a deep, hilarious megashot of feeling and truth as only this man can administer.โโSam Lipsyte
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Praise for Marc Maron and WTF
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โThe stuff of comedy legend.โโRolling Stoneย
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โMarc Maron is a startlingly honest, compelling, and hilarious comedian-poet. Truly one of the greatest of all time.โโLouis C.K.
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โIโve known Marc for years and I can tell you first hand that heโs passionate, fearless, honest, self-absorbed, neurotic, and screamingly funny.โโDavid Cross
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โRevered among his peers . . . raw and unflinchingly honest.โโEntertainment Weekly
โDevastatingly funny.โโLos Angeles Times
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โFor a comedy nerd, this show is nirvana.โโJudd Apatow