Glory Days Stories
Glory Days Stories by Simon Rich is a collection of humorous narratives published by Little Brown in 2024, featuring 224 pages in English. This edition presents a series of comedic tales that explore the challenges faced by millennials as they navigate the complexities of middle age. Rich, a Thurber Prize-winning author, crafts stories that include characters like Super Mario, who reflects on his life at forty, and Goliath, who grapples with media perceptions before a pivotal confrontation.
Readers will find a blend of high-stakes humor and heartfelt moments throughout the book. The narratives delve into themes of nostalgia and the bittersweet transition from youth to adulthood, as seen through the lens of a long-forgotten participation trophy reminiscing about its past glory. Glory Days Stories captures the essence of growing up, highlighting both the loss of youthful innocence and the emergence of newfound wisdom.
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THE BEST COMEDY BOOK OF 2024* An “absolutely hilarious and singular” (Tommy Orange) collection of “laugh-out-loud” (People) stories about millennials entering the abyss of middle age–from Thurber Prize-winning author Simon Rich, “one of the funniest writers in America” (NPR).
Simon Rich returns with a batch of can’t-miss stories in which Super Mario turns forty and is forced to “take-a stock” of his life and how “messed up it’s-a become.” Goliath struggles to control the media narrative in the lead-up to his death match against David, a small, beloved child. And a long-discarded participation trophy reminisces about the glorious field day in 1993, when he wound up in the arms of a jubilant, asthmatic Simon Rich.
High-stakes and heartfelt, Glory Days mourns the death of youthful innocence and hails the beginning of something approximating wisdom.
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