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Microthrills: True Stories from a Life of Small Highs
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Microthrills: True Stories from a Life of Small Highs Paperback - 2007

by Wendy Spero

Raised in Manhattan by her overprotective sex-therapist mother (who wore 'nine inches of shoulder pads'), Wendy Spero has always sought excitement in microthrills, the small, strange highs that give her life meaning from finding a strip tease video of her grandmother to selling knives door-to-door. As a little girl, Spero passed the time sniffing fruit-scented markers and breaking up arguments between her imaginary friends. As an adult, in her first office job, she formed an unusual relationship with her boss that involved as much marijuana-smoking as it did mentoring. Called 'a profoundly funny human being' by Time Out New York, Spero is now a comedian living in L.A., grappling with such grown-up issues as trying to kick her addiction to eating candy in bed and learning how to drive.

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Raised in Manhattan by her overprotective sex-therapist mother (who wore “nine inches of shoulder pads”), Wendy Spero has always sought excitement in microthrills, the small, strange highs that give her life meaning—from finding a strip tease video of her grandmother to selling knives door-to-door. As a little girl, Spero passed the time sniffing fruit-scented markers and breaking up arguments between her imaginary friends. As an adult, in her first office job, she formed an unusual relationship with her boss that involved as much marijuana-smoking as it did mentoring. Called “a profoundly funny human being” by Time Out New York, Spero is now a comedian living in L.A., grappling with such grown-up issues as trying to kick her addiction to eating candy in bed and learning how to drive.

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  • Title Microthrills: True Stories from a Life of Small Highs
  • Author Wendy Spero
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 238
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Plume Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date July 31, 2007
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780452288430 / 0452288436
  • Weight 0.45 lbs (0.20 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.72 x 5.16 x 0.57 in (19.61 x 13.11 x 1.45 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

Media reviews

A hilarious memoir . . . with lots of laugh-so-hard-you-snort-milk-out-of-your-nose moments. (Daily Candy)Spero takes you inside her tiny, hilarious world with a brazen vulnerability that is the rare province of truly great humorists. . . . David Sedaris watch your back! (Ed Helms, The Daily Show)Funny and touching and insightful. Microthrills is all about the little highlights of life and by the first chapter, I knew it was going to be a highlight of my reading year. (A. J. Jacobs, author, The Know-It-All)In her effervescent, delightfully neurotic memoir...Spero works...magic on paper. (New York Times)END

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