The Material by Bordas, Camille
The Material by Bordas, Camille

The Material

A single momentous day transforms the lives of students and professors at a school for stand-up comedy...
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Author: Camille Bordas
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Language: English
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The Material by Bordas, Camille

The Material

$56.78
The Material by Bordas, Camille

The Material

$56.78
Author: Camille Bordas
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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A single momentous day transforms the lives of students and professors at a school for stand-up comedy in a novel that "elucidates the irreconcilability of learning and living, of performance and being" (Rachel Cusk)

Can comedy be taught? Someone, at some point, seemed to think so. The Chicago Stand-Up MFA program has enrolled young comedians for nearly a decade.

Its teachers and students all know how bits work--in theory, at least. They know that there's a line between sharp and cruel, that sad becomes funny at the right angle, that the worst is the best, the truth is the worst, and any moment of your life that isn't a punch line will either get you to a punch line or force you to be one.

They're all afraid to be one.

Artie may be too handsome for standup, Olivia too reluctant to examine her own life, and Phil too afraid to cause harm. Kruger may be too vanilla to command his students' respect, Ashbee too detached. And then we have Dorothy--the only woman on the program's faculty--who though preparing to launch a comeback tour can't tell if she's too abiding, too ambitious, or too ambivalent.

Whether a visiting professor--the high-profile, controversy-steeped comedian Manny Reinhardt--will do more to help or harm their cause remains to be seen. But he's on his way. He'll be arriving sooner than anyone thinks.

Riffing keenly across a diverse array of precision-cut perspectives, The Material examines life through the eyes of a reluctantly assembled ensemble, a band of outsiders bound together by the need to laugh and the longing to make others laugh even harder.

Author: Camille Bordas
Publisher: Random House
Published: 06/11/2024
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
ISBN: 9780593729847

About the Author
Camille Bordas is the author of three prizewinning novels. The most recent, How to Behave in a Crowd, was the first she wrote in English. The earlier two, Partie Commune and Les Treize Desserts, were written in her native French. Her short stories have appeared in The New Yorker and The Paris Review. Born in France, raised in Mexico City and Paris, she currently lives in Chicago.
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