EAN: 9781805220060

THE MATERIAL - CAMILLE BORDAS GEBUNDEN

'Utterly charming ... Bordas is an invaluable new voice' George Saunders Every comedian knows
that there's a line between sharp and cruel  that sad becomes funny at the right angle  that
any moment in life  however painful or triumphant  has the potential to become a punchline. At
the Chicago Stand-up School  success is about the material. But maybe Artie is too handsome to
be taken seriously on stage  Olivia too scared to examine her past  and Phil too afraid to
cause harm. Their teachers are obsessed with failure: Kruger trying to command his father's
respect  Ashbee weary of the way his Blackness attracts a type of white admirer  Dorothy
wondering how her talent is connected to her loneliness. Whether a visiting comedian-the famous
controversy-steeped Manny Reinhardt-will do more to help or to harm their cause remains to be
seen. Set over the course of a single day  and shifting exquisitely between several points of
view  The Material examines life through the eyes of a band of outsiders bound together by the
need to laugh  and the desire to make others laugh even harder.

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