Wright was one of the wittiest voices to emerge from the 1980s stand-up comedy boom. In his first novel, we follow the mind of seven-year-old Harold (Wright in miniature) throughout a school day in the 1960s. Filtered through a stream of brilliant jokes, Harold’s worldview takes shape via crushes on his classmate Elizabeth and his …
It isn’t often that I laugh out loud while reading a book and very rarely a book that has been snorting in hysterics but I just couldn’t hold it in with this one and it may have drawn a few stares. To say I loved this book is a terrible understatement. At moments I wondered …
This can be a dangerous book to read with someone else in the room because you will be laughing out loud so often that the other person will think that you’re crazy. Told entirely through referral letters, it is good-heartedly funny but never cruel. It points out absurdities of academia, bemoaning changes in technology and …
