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OK, Let's Do Your Stupid Idea by Patrick Freyne

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OK, Let's Do Your Stupid Idea

Author
Patrick Freyne
Narrator
Patrick Freyne
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Publish Date
17 September 2020
Run Time
5 hours 27 minutes
Format
Audiobook
Genre
Memoirs, Humour collections and anthologies, Essays, Coping with / advice about death and bereavement, Housing and homelessness

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Patrick Freyne has tried a lot of stupid ideas in his life. Now, in his scintillating debut, he is here to tell you about them: like the time (aged 5) he opened a gate and let a horse out of its field, just to see what would happen; or the time (aged 19) he jumped out of a plane for charity, even though he didn't much care about the charity and was sure he'd end up dead; or the time (aged old enough to know better) he used a magazine as a funnel for fuel when the petrol cap on his band's van broke.

He has also learned a few things: about the power of group song; about the beauty of physically caring for another human being; about childlessness; about losing friends far too young. Life as seen through the eyes of Patrick Freyne is stranger, funnier and a lot more interesting than life as we generally know it. Like David Sedaris or Nora Ephron, he creates an environment all his own - fundamentally comic, sometimes moving, always deeply humane. OK, Let's Do Your Stupid Idea is a joyous reading experience from an instantly essential new writer.

© Patrick Freyne 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

Critics Review

  • Patrick Freyne is a comic genius

    Marian Keyes

  • One of the year's funniest books ... witty, wise and worth returning to again and again

    i Paper

  • Funny, smart, soulful and sometimes devastating, this book shows life in all its shades. It made me laugh and cry

    Emilie Pine, author of Notes to Self

  • Warm, wry, charming, absorbing ... It's the most gorgeous and heartbreaking book about humans and why we need each other

    via Twitter

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  • Funny and adorable

    Nina Stibbe

  • I was reminded - very happily reminded - of Kurt Vonnegut. But Patrick Freyne is his own writer and this book is clever, lovely and great, great fun

    Roddy Doyle

  • Patrick Freyne has a distinct and enviable gift for story-telling ... Full of humour and tenderness, this book is an absolute JOY

    Sinéad Gleeson, author of Constellations

  • One of the best-written, smartest and gosh-darn-it funniest books I've read in a very long while

    Séamus O'Reilly

  • Hilariously, painfully, Freynefully brilliant

    Joseph O'Connor

  • Whether he's writing about his childhood on a military base, working in a kebab shop with a nazi in his teens, playing in punk bands in his twenties, or grappling with the question of whether to have children, Patrick Freyne is a writer of rare humour, depth, and humanity. These essays are a delight

    Mark O'Connell, author of To Be a Machine

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Details
Author
Patrick Freyne
Narrator
Patrick Freyne
Duration
5 hours 27 minutes
Release Date
17 September 2020
ISBN
9781844884971
Format
Audiobook
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Genre
Memoirs, Humour collections and anthologies, Essays, Coping with / advice about death and bereavement, Housing and homelessness

Synopsis

Brought to you by Penguin.Patrick Freyne has tried a lot of stupid ideas in his life. Now, in his scintillating debut, he is here to tell you about them: like the time (aged 5) he opened a gate and let a horse out of its field, just to see what would happen; or the time (aged 19) he jumped out of a plane for charity, even though he didn't much care about the charity and was sure he'd end up dead; or the time (aged old enough to know better) he used a magazine as a funnel for fuel when the petrol cap on his band's van broke.He has also learned a few things: about the power of group song; about the beauty of physically caring for another human being; about childlessness; about losing friends far too young. Life as seen through the eyes of Patrick Freyne is stranger, funnier and a lot more interesting than life as we generally know it. Like David Sedaris or Nora Ephron, he creates an environment all his own - fundamentally comic, sometimes moving, always deeply humane. OK, Let's Do Your Stupid Idea is a joyous reading experience from an instantly essential new writer.© Patrick Freyne 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

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