Description
| Author/Contributor(s): | Maron, Marc |
| Publisher: | Crown |
| Date: | 10/9/2001 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
By the author of Attempting Normal and host of the podcast WTF with Marc Maron, The Jerusalem Syndrome is The Gospel according to Maron: a spiritual memoir of your average hyperintelligent, ultraneurotic, superhip Jewish standup comedian and seeker.
The Jerusalem Syndromeis a genuine psychological phenomenon that often strikes visitors to the Holy Land_thedelusion that they are suddenly direct vessels for the voice of Maronseems to have a distinctly American version of the Jerusalem Syndrome, which hasled him on a lifelong quest for religious significance and revelation in the mostunlikely of places.
Maron riffs on Beat phenomena with its sacred texts, establishedrituals, and prescribed pilgrimages. He spends some time exploring the dark sideof things, as his obsessions with cocaine (known to Maron as “magic powder”), conspiracytheories, and famous self-destructive comedians convince him that the gates of hellopen beneath Los his quest matures, he reveals the religious aspectsof Corporate America, pontificating on the timeless beauty of the Coca-Cola logoand even taking a trip to the Philip Morris cigarette factory, where the workerspuff their own products with a zealot-like culmination of Maron’s JerusalemSyndrome comes during his own tour of the Holy Land, where, with Sony camcorder gluedto his eye socket, he comes face-to-face with his own ambiguous relationship to Judaismand reaches the brink of spiritual revelation_or is it nervous breakdown?
MarcMaron has considerably adapted and expanded his praised one-man show to craft a genuineliterary he’s a genuine prophet or a neurotic mess, he’ll make youlaugh as you question the meaning of life.
“Marc Maron is blazingly smart, rapid-fire,and very funny . . . A brilliant and relentless screed.” –David Rakoff, author ofFraud
“Marc Maron is the first crazy person I’ve ever his brainiac-memoir-meets-hilarious-travelogue,he demonstrates the ability to tell a story with an extraordinary provocative intelligencethat is regrettably shared by few.” _ Janeane Garofolo, comedian
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