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    Dave Hill Doesn't Live Here Anymore

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    With his signature matter-of-fact humor, comedian and musician Dave Hill explores his increasingly close relationship with his recently widowed father in a series of painfully funny essays you will want to read again and again by the fire, at the beach, in a truck stop men's room, or just about anywhere. It's your call, really.

    These days, Dave has just the right amount of spare time to write books at home, preferably in his underwear, but things weren't always perfect. When he found himself pushing thirty while still living with his parents in Cleveland, unsuited for anything but what an "employment expert" vaguely called a career in "art, music, writing, or entertainment," he decided to visit some friends in New York for the weekend and never left. However, getting his life together wasn't as easy as he'd hoped, and even an illegally subletted, rent controlled fifth-floor walk-up studio apartment with a (for the most part) working toilet wasn't glamorous enough to erase the fact that his four siblings were all married with steady jobs and actual human offspring. And in recent years, Dave's father had grown tired of loaning him cash and living alone in the empty family home, neither of which made much sense to Dave, but whatever.

    Through the process of his father's eventual move to a retirement community, Dave and his dad bonded over the things in life that really matter: scorching-hot rock jams, the gluten allergy craze, eighteen-wheelers, Italian food (pizza and spaghetti), and whatever else could possibly be left after that. Meanwhile, Dave discovered his late-blooming manhood via experiences as disparate and dangerous as a visit to a remote Mexican prison, where he learned that people everywhere love the Eagles, and a martial arts class that pushed his resolve and his groin to their limit. In Dave Hill Doesn't Live Here Anymore, Hill's voice is sharp, carefree, laced with just the right amount of profanity, and he is-seemingly despite himself-deeply empathetic as he portrays a difficult time in his family's life and grows up just enough to realize that maybe he and his dad aren't so different after all.


    From the Hardcover edition.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateMay 10, 2016
    ISBN9780735206540
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      Storytelling done wellDave Hill’s shtick is naiveté. He approaches life with a Hollywood hero attitude. He is heavily influenced by films, sitcoms, commercials, rock bands, and above all, chain restaurants. He dives straight into projects expecting to master lifelong skills in a session or two, just like in the movies. He is of course thwarted, and therein lies the humor. There is way too much reference to his underpants, and something called face melting crops up four times, but otherwise it makes a warmly funny read.The stories are personal, human, and amusing, in a Mark Twain sort of way, as opposed to an SJ Perelman sort of way. I like it better than say, Adam Resnick’s stories, if only because it is so much smoother and cleaner. There’s nothing too outrageous to be true, and something pretty much any middle class American could relate to, from having too much stuff to training a puppy, to finessing parents. It’s an All-American kind of collection, best appreciated in small doses as opposed to binge reading.David Wineberg