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Jokes My Father Never Taught Me

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The loving, witty, yet brutally honest memoir of 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. Rain's father was Richard Pryor, perhaps the most compelling and brilliant comedian of his era, a man whose self-destructiveness was as legendary as his groundbreaking comedy.
Jokes My Father Never Taught Me is an intimate, harrowing, poignant, and often hilarious memoir that explores the divided heritage and the forces that shaped a wildly schizophrenic childhood. It is the story of a girl who grew up adoring her father even as she feared him—and feared for him, as his drug problems got worse. Both lovingly told and painfully frank, it is an unprecedented look at the life of a comedy icon, told by a daughter who both understood the genius and knew the tortured man within.
Praise for Jokes My Father Never Taught Me
"Rain Pryor pulls no punches . . . Using the same profanity-laced wit her father perfected, she unspools darkly comic stories . . . but never devolves into self-pity or bitterness." —Entertainment Weekly
"Vital, entertaining and appalling, Pryor has fleshed out a familiar dysfunctional family refrain—"It was a lot easier to love him if you didn't know him"—with bravery and wit." —Publishers Weekly

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Publisher: HarperCollins

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  • Release date: November 21, 2023

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  • ISBN: 9780061745966
  • Release date: November 21, 2023

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  • ISBN: 9780061745966
  • File size: 2354 KB
  • Release date: November 21, 2023

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The loving, witty, yet brutally honest memoir of 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. Rain's father was Richard Pryor, perhaps the most compelling and brilliant comedian of his era, a man whose self-destructiveness was as legendary as his groundbreaking comedy.
Jokes My Father Never Taught Me is an intimate, harrowing, poignant, and often hilarious memoir that explores the divided heritage and the forces that shaped a wildly schizophrenic childhood. It is the story of a girl who grew up adoring her father even as she feared him—and feared for him, as his drug problems got worse. Both lovingly told and painfully frank, it is an unprecedented look at the life of a comedy icon, told by a daughter who both understood the genius and knew the tortured man within.
Praise for Jokes My Father Never Taught Me
"Rain Pryor pulls no punches . . . Using the same profanity-laced wit her father perfected, she unspools darkly comic stories . . . but never devolves into self-pity or bitterness." —Entertainment Weekly
"Vital, entertaining and appalling, Pryor has fleshed out a familiar dysfunctional family refrain—"It was a lot easier to love him if you didn't know him"—with bravery and wit." —Publishers Weekly

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