How Not to Be a Boy [electronic resource]
Webb, Robert2017
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RULES FOR BEING A MAN
Don't Cry; Love Sport; Play Rough; Drink Beer; Don't Talk About Feelings But Robert Webb has been wondering for some time now: are those rules actually any use? To anyone? Looking back over his life, from schoolboy crushes (on girls and boys) to discovering the power of making people laugh (in the Cambridge Footlights with David Mitchell), and from losing his beloved mother to becoming a husband and father, Robert Webb considers the absurd expectations boys and men have thrust upon them at every stage of life. Hilarious and heartbreaking, How Not To Be a Boy explores the relationships that made Robert who he is as a man, the lessons we learn as sons and daughters, and the understanding that sometimes you aren't the Luke Skywalker of your life - you're actually Darth Vader.
Main title:
How Not to Be a Boy [electronic resource] / Robert Webb
Author:
Webb, Robert, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Canongate Books, 2017
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1 online resource (1 text file)
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Mode of access: Internet
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<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="640"><tbody></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%" height="9rem"><tbody><tr><td><div class="viewbox bgl-copyfield-viewbox">Robert Webb has been a male for his whole life. As such, he has been a boy in a world of fighting, pointless posturing, and the insistence that he stop crying. As an adult man, he has enjoyed better luck, both in his work as the Webb half of Mitchell & Webb in the Sony award-winning That Mitchell & Webb Sound and the Bafta award-winning That Mitchell & Webb Look, and as permanent man-boy Jeremy in the acclaimed Peep Show. He also played Bertie Wooster in the acclaimed West End run of Jeeves and Wooster in Perfect Nonsense. Robert has been a columnist for the Daily Telegraph and the New Statesman, and now lives in London with his wife and daughters, where he continues trying to be funny and to fumble beyond general expectations of manhood. He will appear as a contestant on Strictly Come Dancing in 2021. @arobertwebb</td></tr></tbody></table>
ISBN:
9781786890108
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English
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2804169
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