Paula Poundstone
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HighBridge Audio
Pub. Date
p2006
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English
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What do the lives of Lincoln, Helen Keller, Joan of Arc, and other historical figures have in common with Paula Poundstone? In the hands of this wryly observant and self-deprecating comedian, the answer is outrageously funny and unexpectedly touching. Poundstone compares her crazy life to theirs, as she holds forth on her children, her career, and the time in her life when it appeared she would lose them both. Now exonerated, Poundstone treats that...
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Award-winning comedian Paula Poundstone is legendary for her spontaneous wit and razor-sharp humor. She is a popular panelist on NPR's Wait Wait . . . Don't Tell Me! and tours regularly, keeping audiences laughing in her one-woman shows. In North by Northwest, Paula is at her best in two memorable performances, one recorded in Bayfield, Wisconsin, at Lake Superior Big Top Chautauqua and the other at the historic Aladdin Theater in Portland, Oregon....
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"Is there a secret to happiness?" asks comedian Paula Poundstone. "I don't know how or why anyone would keep it a secret. It seems rather cruel, really...Where could it be? Is it deceptively simple? Does it melt at a certain temperature? Can you buy it? Must you suffer for it before or after?" In her wildly and wisely observed book, the comedy legend takes on that most inalienable of rights-the pursuit of happiness.
Offering herself up as a human...
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English
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With readings by some of stage and screen's most talented performers (including Bryce Dallas Howard, Paula Poundstone and Margot Rose), and music by renowned composer Laura Hall, these tales of Women of Wonder will delight listeners from 5 to 95. From England to Siberia and New Zealand, from the United States to Cambodia and East Africa, listeners will be transported as legendary heroines and goddesses seek and struggle, win and lose, laugh and cry,...