Description |
1 online resource (425 pages) : illustrations |
Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledments; Prologue; Chapter 1: Bugs Bunny, The Corn Belt, and the Yellow Brick Road of Adolescence; Chapter 2: A Ticket on the Pharmaceutical Express; Chapter 3: A Suite at Seizure's Palace, A Three-ring Circus, and The Big Question; Chapter 4: Heading Out and Breaking Away; Chapter 5: Southbound; Chapter 6: Dynamite, Disco, and Deer Blinds; Chapter 7: Huntsville, A Cold Creek Crossing, Deerflies, and Dreams; Chapter 8: Summer of Dreams and All Things Texan; Chapter 9: Chainsaws, Machetes, and Steel-toed Boots; Chapter 10: Boomtown and Payback |
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Chapter 11: Birds of a FeatherChapter 12: Freedom Fighters; Chapter 13: Oil Field Trash and Proud of it; Chapter 14: Fortune Favors the Bold, and Other Sage Advice; Things I Learned Doing Standup That Can Help You Meet Any Challenge; Author's Note |
Summary |
Annotation Fierce, Funny, and Female is the prequel to the critically acclaimed, nationally award-winning and bestselling memoir, Never Give in to Fear. In her raw, vivid, and unabashed style, author Marti MacGibbon delivers a sometimes heartbreaking, often hilarious, always engaging account of her passage through trauma, betrayal, and loss in adolescence and young adulthood to discover her inner badass self. As one of the first women to work as a laborer in the Texas oil field, she set off explosives and staked oil wells before realizing her childhood dream of becoming a successful standup comic. Marti introduces readers to a wide range of characters in her life: from sleazy authority figures, wannabe Sixties musicians and crazed Corn Belt cult leaders, to Texas oil billionaires and wildcatters, to wild-eyed redneck coworkers who robbed banks on their lunch hour--in the company truck. The book includes scenes with iconic comedians, Hollywood entertainment industry moguls, and a legendary bluesman, and offers insights into resiliency, courage, and self-empowerment |
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MacGibbon, Marti.
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Comedians -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area -- Biography
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Recovering addicts -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area -- Biography
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Substance abuse -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area -- Biography
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
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Comedians
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Recovering addicts
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Substance abuse
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California -- San Francisco Bay Area
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Genre/Form |
Biographies
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780986006753 |
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0986006750 |
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9780986006746 |
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0986006742 |
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