David J. Cohen

Broschiertes Buch

Stand Up, Barry Goldman

Beschreibung

All I'd wanted for as long as I could remember was a woman to love, a soulmate to live with in contentment for the rest of my days: friend, lover, companion, mother to our children. Time was running out: I was getting old. Next year I would be eighteen. Barry Goldman is a sensitive boy. He's being primed to run the family business but has discovered a talent for making audiences laugh at his silly poems. At last, he has found something that might make him attractive to girls - in particular, Harriet Fink - but there's not much call for delicate, earnest poets in the 1970s comedy world of hot-panted dolly birds and battle-axe mothers-in-law. Then one night he sees Kris Dean on a stage in Edinburgh and understands that the world of comedy is about to change forever. Stand Up, Barry Goldman - like Elena Ferrante, but with jokes - is the debut novel of David J. Cohen, stand-up comedian and writer best known as the creator of dozens of songs for multi-BAFTA winning hit TV show Horrible Histories, and less well known as lead singer in the world's first Jewish heavy metal band, Guns'n'Moses. "Funny and fascinating, a lovely tale" Jo Brand "Powerfully funny, often moving... Dave has created the Jewish Adrian Mole of alternative comedy." David Quantick "In the last anxiety-making days of lockdown Dave made me laugh out loud from the first few pages. This novel about the world of stand-up comedy is funnier than the real thing." Linda Grant "Evokes all the tension of doing your first Edinburgh Fringe but without incurring the life-changing overdraft" Jack Dee

Autor

Michael Parsons is Director of Postgraduate Research and Lecturer in Christian Thought at Vose Seminary, Perth, Western Australia. He is the author of Luther and Calvin on Old Testament Narratives (2004), Reformation Marriage (2005), Calvin's Preaching on the Prophet Micah (2006), and Martin Luther's Interpretation of the Royal Psalms (2009). Parsons is also the editor of Text and Task: Scripture and Mission (2005). David Cohen is Head of Biblical Studies, Old Testament, at Vose Seminary, Perth, Western Australia. He has written about the relevance of lament psalms for worship and pastoral care in Text and Task: Scripture and Mission (2005). Parsons and Cohen, together, previously edited On Eagles' Wings.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: David J. Cohen
• Seitenzahl: 346
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 502g
• ISBN-13: 9781999313821
• ISBN-10: 1999313828
• Artikelnr.: 62079838