Last Words: A Memoir

Trade Paperback

1st

First Person

Non-Fiction

294

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With fourteen HBO specials five Grammys a critical Supreme Court battle over censorship and countless appearances on the international comedy circuit George Carlin saw it all and made fun of most of it.  Carlin’s journey to stardom began in the roughandtumble neighborhoods of New York in the 1950s where class and culture wars planted the seeds for some of his earliest material including the infamous Seven Dirty Words routine. Carlin describes his major influences as an upandcoming comic talking about the origins of some of his most famous standup routines. The people he encountered on his rise to stardom reads like a Who’s Who of 1970s celebrity from Lenny Bruce who took him under his wing to Hugh Hefner who gave him his first big shot.  Carlin spares no details as he describes his life and career. He discusses his own battle with substance abuse his often turbulent relationships with the women in his life and the politics that informed so much of his st

Free Press

9781439191101

United States

Usa

2010-11-01

1

English

New York

~$4.58

2026-02-03

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