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Schimmel, Robert; Eisenstock, Alan

 
9780738211589: Cancer on $5 a Day: Chemo Not Included: How Humor Got Me Through the Toughest Journey of My Life
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ISBN 10: 0738211583 ISBN 13: 9780738211589
Casa editrice: Da Capo Pr, 2008

Sinossi

In the spring of 2000, Robert Schimmel was riding high. He'd won the Stand-Up of the Year Award, his HBO special was a huge hit, and his sitcom had been picked up. And then it all came crashing down. Diagnosed with Stage III non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, he was told he would have to undergo chemotherapy immediately. The sitcom was dumped and the fire of his white-hot career started to go out. But Schimmel never lost his sense of humor, his knife-like edge, and most of all, his passion to entertain. Indeed, it was his basic need to laugh-even if the only people around him were suffering from cancer and the room he was playing was the Mayo Clinic infusion center-that carried him through his ordeal. From his colorful banter with nurses and other patients during chemo, to his hilarious conversation with a wig salesman, going for the laugh was Robert Schimmel's survival mechanism. Alternately laugh-out-loud funny and profound, Cancer on Five Dollars a Day is an honest account of how one man's face-off with a deadly disease helped him better understand himself.

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Informazioni sugli autori

Robert Schimmel was named one of Comedy Central's 100 Greatest Comics. He is a regular on Howard Stern and Conan O'Brien. He lives in Los Angeles.

Alan Eisenstock is the author of several nonfiction works. He lives in Pacific Palisades, California.

Robert Schimmel, named one of Comedy Central's 100 Greatest Comics, has had Showtime and HBO specials, bestselling CDs, a Fox TV pilot, consistently sold-out club dates, and is a regular on both Howard Stern and Conan O'Brien. He lives in Los Angeles.

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Editore
Da Capo Pr
Data di pubblicazione
2008
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0738211583
ISBN 13 
9780738211589
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero di pagine
195
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
non disponibile

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9781410415769: Cancer on Five Dollars a Day* (*Chemo Not Included): How Humor Got Me Through the Toughest Journey of My Life

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ISBN 10:  1410415767 ISBN 13:  9781410415769
Casa editrice: Thorndike Pr, 2009
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