Bøger af Patrick Combs

In WHEN YOU ARE BURSTING, Patrick Combs mines both the outrageous and everyday terrain of his personal life, his family, and his uniquely open-hearted world-view for stories that richly entertain but also point you, the reader, back to your best self. Delivering a baby on a sidewalk; catching a thief stealing out of his car; explaining the birds and the bees to his son in a restaurant; having half of his face paralyzed while on tour doing comedy; saying goodbye to his mother for the last time... In these stories, and many more, you'll be moved to laughter, tears, and inspiration by Patrick's fantastic sense of humor, raw vulnerability, and candid appreciation of wonder.

"It came in a junk-mail letter, pushing a get-rich-quick scheme. It was a check for $95,093.35, made payable to my name, but clearly bearing the words "non-negotiable" in the top-right corner. For no other reason at all than a joke, I deposited it into my bank's ATM. To my absolute astonishment - it cashed! Thus began the wildest adventure I've ever been on in my life."

First, it was an internet sensation read by millions, then an international news story. Next, an Off-Broadway, smash-hit, nationally touring one man show. Finally, it's a book for the most complete and compelling tale of Patrick Combs' amazing but true and often hilarious story. Man 1, Bank 0 chronicles the true story of Combs' battle against his bank, after he deposited a $95,000 junk-mail check as a joke - and his bank inadvertently cashed it! It's a story of luck, danger and dilemma.