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Bordas, Camille

 
9780593729861: The Material: A Novel
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ISBN 10: 0593729862 ISBN 13: 9780593729861
Editorial: Random House Publishing Group, 2026

Sinopsis

A single momentous day transforms the lives of students and professors at a school for stand-up comedy in a novel that "[brims] with insecure characters, clever repartee, dark jokes and funny riffs" (The Wall Street Journal)

"Insightful, compassionate, biting and honest."--The Washington Post

"Brilliance is on display here."--Percival Everett, author of James and The Trees

ONE OF SLATE'S TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR - Longlisted for the New American Voices Award

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.

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Acerca del autor

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. She has been named a Guggenheim Fellow. Born in France, raised in Mexico City and Paris, she currently lives in Chicago.

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Editorial
Random House Publishing Group
Año de publicación
2026
Idioma
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ISBN 10 
0593729862
ISBN 13 
9780593729861
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
289
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