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Author:
Hannah Gadsby
Publisher:
Ballantine Books
Date:
March 29, 2022
Hannah Gadsby "broke comedy" with her show Nanette when she declared that she was quitting stand-up. Now she takes us through the defining moments in her life that led to the creation of Nanette and her powerful decision to tell the truthâno matter the cost.
What The Reviewers Say
... enthralling and occasionally vexing.
In part Ten Steps to Nanette functions as a bleak artist’s notebook, an account of how she ended up on stage at the Sydney Opera House that January, as well as an almost conventional 'memoir situation'.
Just like the show its title references, Ten Steps to Nanette is honest, incisive, self-referential and very funny, with the author’s wry humor threaded throughout its pages, her trademark asides transformed into frequent footnotes.
All heavy topics, but just like the stage show, Gadsby finds a measured way to offer respectful and insightful reflection on the terrible things she and others have endured while also pointing out the idiosyncrasies and flaws in logic that she can turn into a wisecrack.
