Best to laugh : a novel
Record details
- ISBN: 9780816698974
- ISBN: 081669897X
- ISBN: 0816694532 (cloth ; acid-free paper)
- ISBN: 9780816694532 (cloth ; acid-free paper)
- ISBN: 0816694532 : HRD
- ISBN: 9780816694532 : HRD
- ISBN: 9780816694532 (hc : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 0816694532 (hc : alk. paper)
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Physical Description:
302 pages ; 24 cm
print - Publisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2014]
Content descriptions
Summary, etc.: | "No one steps up to life's banquet, holds out her tray, and orders, "Grief, please!" Yet as a child, Candy Pekkala was served a heaping helping of it. But every buffet line has a dessert section, and when a cousin calls with a Hollywood apartment to sublet, it seems though Candy is finally offered something sweet. It's good-bye to Minnesota and hello to California, where a girl who has always lived by her wits has a real chance of making a living with them. And with that, Lorna Landvik launches her latest irresistible character onto the world stage--or at least onto the dimly lit small stage where stand-up comedy gets its start"--Inside Cover. |
Search for related items by subject
Subject: | Stand-up comedy Fiction Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) Fiction Moving, Household Fiction Stand-up comedy Fiction |
Genre: | Humorous fiction. |
Available copies
- 7 of 7 copies available at Bibliomation.
- 1 of 1 copy available at Kent Memorial Library - Suffield. (Show preferred library)
Holds
- 0 current holds with 7 total copies.
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Kent Memorial Library - Suffield | FICTION LANDVIK (Text) | 32518132616734 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Easton Public Library | FIC LANDVIK, LORNA (Text) | 37777123538837 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Hall Memorial Library - Ellington | LANDVIK, LORNA (Text) | 34037129283943 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Killingworth Library Association | FIC LAN (Text) | 33420145127776 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Norfolk Library | FIC LAN (Text) | 36058010216899 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Ridgefield Library | FIC LANDVIK (Text) | 34010131052390 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Thompson Public Library | Landvik (Text) | 34038118834563 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Author Notes
Best to Laugh : A Novel
Author Lorna Lanvik was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1954. After high school graduation, she and a friend traveled in Europe and settled in Bavaria where they worked as hotel chamber maids and English tutors. After returning to the United States, she briefly attended the University of Minnesota before moving to San Francisco to perform stand-up and improvisational comedy. She moved to Los Angeles, where she did stand-up comedy at the Comedy Store and The Improv as well as worked a variety of temporary jobs including one at the Playboy Mansion and another at Atlantic Records. She is an actor and playwright who has performed in plays she has written and produced. She has appeared in numerous plays including Bad Seed, Lunatic Cellmates, and Valley of the Dolls. She has written six novels and currently lives in Minneapolis with her husband and two daughters. (Bowker Author Biography)