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Uncle of the Year audiobook
- By: Andrew Rannells
- Narrator: Andrew Rannells
- Category: Biography & Autobiography, Entertainment & Performing Arts
- Length: 5 hours 50 minutes
- Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
- Publish date: January 01, 2023
- Language: English
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Uncle of the Year Audiobook Summary
From the star of The Book of Mormon and Girls, candid, hilarious essays on anxiety, ambition, and the uncertain path to adulthood that ask: How will we know when we get there?
“With the unsparing eye of David Sedaris and the social wisdom of Nora Ephron, Andrew Rannells tackles the most foundational questions of growing up.”—Lena Dunham
In Uncle of the Year, Andrew Rannells wonders: If he, now in his forties, has everything he’s supposed to need to be an adult—a career, property, a well-tailored suit—why does he still feel like an anxious twenty-year-old climbing his way toward solid ground? Is it because he hasn’t won a Tony, or found a husband, or had a child? And what if he doesn’t want those things? (A husband and a child, that is. He wants a Tony.)
In deeply personal essays drawn from his life, as well as his career on Broadway and in Hollywood, Rannells argues that we all pretend we are constantly succeeding—for friends, partners, parents, and others—that we are constantly succeeding in the process known as “adulting.” But if this acting is leaving us unfulfilled, then we need new markers of time, new milestones, new expectations of what adulthood is and can be.
Along the way, Rannells navigates dating, aging, mental health, bad jobs, and much more. In his essay “Uncle of the Year,” he explores the role that children play in his life, as a man who never thought having kids was necessary or even possible—until his siblings have kids and he falls in love with a man with two of his own. In “Always Sit Next to Mark Ruffalo,” he reveals the thrills and absurdities of the awards circuit, and the desire to be recognized for one’s work. And in “Horses, Not Zebras,” he shares the piece of wisdom that helped him finally come to terms with his anxiety and perfectionism.
Filled with honest insights and a sharp wit, Uncle of the Year challenges us to take a long look at who we’re pretending to be, who we know we are, and who we want to become.
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Uncle of the Year Full Details
| Narrator | Andrew Rannells |
| Length | 5 hours 50 minutes |
| Author | Andrew Rannells |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group |
| Release date | April 28, 2024 |
| ISBN | 9780593667446 |
Subjects
The publisher of the Uncle of the Year is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. includes the following subjects: gay gifts, mental health, aging, dating, adulting, entertainment, celebrity, biographies and memoirs, relationships, millennials, parenthood, hamilton, musicals, broadway musical, hollywood, biographies of famous people, actor, family comedy, comedy books, the book of mormon, andrew rannells, happiness, lgbtq, lgbt, society, pop culture, perfectionism, anxiety, wisdom, maturity, adulthood, uncle, comedian, comedians, comedy, humorous, funny gifts, funny books, humor, memoirs, memoir, autobiographies, autobiography, biographies, biography, Biography & Autobiography, Entertainment & Performing Arts, Humor, Topic, Celebrity & Popular Culture The BISAC Subject Code is Biography & Autobiography, Entertainment & Performing Arts
Additional info
The publisher of the Uncle of the Year is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The imprint is Random House Audio. It is supplied by Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The ISBN-13 is 9780593667446.
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This book is only available in the United States.
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