Based on a True Story: Not a Memoir, Paperback
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - ""Driving, wild and hilarious"" (The Washington Post), here is the incredible ""memoir"" of the actor, gambler, raconteur, and Saturday Night Live veteran. Don't miss Norm's new Netflix special, Hitler's Dog, Gossip & Treachery When Norm Macdonald, one of the greatest stand-up comics of all time, was approached to write a celebrity memoir, he flatly refused, calling the genre ""one step below instruction manuals."" Norm then promptly took a two-year hiatus from stand-up comedy to live on a farm in northern Canada. When he emerged he had under his arm a manuscript, a genre-smashing book about comedy, tragedy, love, loss, war, and redemption. When asked if this was the celebrity memoir, Norm replied, ""Call it anything you damn like."" Praise for Based on a True Story""Dostoyevsky by way of 30 Rockefeller Center . . . the best new book I've read this year or last.""--The Wall Street Journal ""This book is absurd fiction. . . . Scathing and funny.""--The New York Times ""Hilarious and filled with turns of phrase and hidden beauty like only a collection of Norm Macdonald stories could be.""--Esquire ""Raucous . . . a hilarious, innovative work.""--A. V. Club ""Part personal history and part meta riff on celebrity memoirs, the book, it quickly becomes clear, is also just partly true (and all hilarious).""--Vulture ""Very, very, very funny Thanks, Norm, for letting me be part of this Booker Prize-for-literature-quality effort.""--David Letterman ""Norm is brilliant and thoughtful and there is sensitivity and creative insight in his observations and stories. A lot of comics over the years have been compared to Mark Twain, but I think Norm is the only one who actually matches the guy in terms of his voice and ability. I seriously fking love Norm Macdonald. Please buy his book. He probably needs the cash. He's really bad with money.""--Louis C. K., from the foreword ""Norm is one of my all-time favorites, and this book was such a great read I forgot how lonely I was for a
