I'm just a person

Resource Information

The work I'm just a person represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Calgary Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Audio, Nonmusical, Sounds, Music.

Label

I'm just a person

Statement of responsibility

written and read by Tig Notaro

Creator

• Notaro, Tig

Author

• Notaro, Tig

Narrator

• Notaro, Tig

Subject

• BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
• Cancer -- Patients
• Comedians -- United States -- Biography
• Downloadable audio books
• Notaro, Tig
• Audiobooks
• Autobiographies

Genre

• Biography
• Downloadable audio books
• Autobiographies
• Audiobooks

Language

eng

Summary

One of America's most original comedic voices delivers a darkly funny, wryly observed, and emotionally raw account of her year of death, cancer, and epiphany. In the span of four months in 2012, Tig Notaro was hospitalized for a debilitating intestinal disease called C. diff, her mother unexpectedly died, she went through a breakup, and then she was diagnosed with bilateral breast cancer. Hit with this devastating barrage, Tig took her grief onstage. Days after receiving her cancer diagnosis, she broke new comedic ground, opening an unvarnished set with the words: "Good evening. Hello. I have cancer. How are you? Hi, how are you? Is everybody having a good time? I have cancer." The set went viral instantly and was ultimately released as Tig's sophomore album, Live, which sold one hundred thousand units in just six weeks and was later nominated for a Grammy. Now, the wildly popular star takes stock of that no good, very bad year--a difficult yet astonishing period in which tragedy turned into absurdity and despair transformed into joy. An inspired combination of the deadpan silliness of her comedy and the open-hearted vulnerability that has emerged in the wake of that dire time, I'm Just a Person is a moving and often hilarious look at this very brave, very funny woman's journey into the darkness and her thrilling return from it

Accompanying matter

technical information on music

Cataloging source

TEFOD

Dewey number

792.23/092

Form of composition

not applicable

Format of music

not applicable

LC call number

PN2287.N575

LC item number

A3 2016ab

Literary text for sound recordings

• autobiography
• memoirs

Music parts

not applicable

PerformerNote

Read by the author

Transposition and arrangement

not applicable