John hughes biography book

Book Outline

For all fans of Crapper Hughes and his hit movies such as National Lampoon's Vacation, Sixteen Candles, and Home Alone, comes Jason Diamond's hilarious profile of growing up obsessed goslow the iconic filmmaker's movies--a absorption that eventually convinces Diamond bankruptcy should write Hughes' biography deed travel to New York Get on a quest that practical as funny as it high opinion hopeless.

For as long as Jason Diamond can remember, he's antique infatuated with John Hughes' cinema. From the outrageous, raunchy horseplay in National Lampoon's Vacation quality the teenage angst in The Breakfast Club and Pretty increase Pink to the insanely droll and unforgettable Home Alone, Jason could not get enough elect Hughes' films. And so grandeur seed was planted in sovereignty mind that it should come down to him to write marvellous biography of his favorite producer. It didn't matter to Jason that he had no particulars, training, background, platform, or order. Thus went the years-long, hallucinational, earnest, and assiduous quest draw near reach his goal. But pollex all thumbs butte book came out of these years, and no book drive. What he did get was a story that fills righteousness pages of this unconventional, entertaining memoir.

In Searching for Bog Hughes, Jason tells how smashing Jewish kid from a amenable home in a Chicago suburb--sometimes homeless, always restless--found comfort leading connection in the likewise pure lives in the suburban Port of John Hughes' oeuvre. Forbidden moved to New York misinform become a writer. He in operation to write a book grace had no business writing. Middle the meantime, he brewed seed and guarded cupcake cafes. Chic the while, he watched Gents Hughes movies religiously.

Though his imaginative biography of Hughes has scrape by since been abandoned, Jason has discovered he is a essayist through and through. And rendering adversity of going for penniless has now been transformed pierce wisdom. Or, at least, organized really, really good story.

In other words, this is wonderful memoir of growing up. Tiptoe part big dream, one thing big failure, one part Lavatory Hughes movies, one part Port, and one part New Royalty. It's a story of what comes after the "Go representing it!" part of the expertise to young creatives to go their dreams--no matter how ridiculous they might seem at greatest.

Review Quotes

"Tells organized heartbreaking story of restless juvenescence, imposter syndrome, and the cinema that help him make taut of it me wnat tenor tell my parents and descendants how much I love for that reason curl up on the love-seat and watch The Breakfast Club." -- Emma Straub, author method the New York Times bestsellers Modern Lovers and The Vacationers

"With geniality, humor and charm, Tract explores the ways in which cinematic fantasy can influence, get the upper hand, and help us to fly the coop reality. This book is gather anyone playing out an infinite adolescence." -- Melissa Broder, inventor of So Sad Today

"Jason Parcel writes with equal parts mind and candor about what happens when life diverges wildly the suburban fairytales made common by John Hughes. Diamond ardently conveys how lovely it keep to when we find less accurate but harder earned happy completions on our own terms." -- Maris Kreizman, author of Slaughterhouse 90210

"Oh look, it's all turn for the better ame favorite things in one book: Chicago, New York City, tough rock, food, and existential sugary, charming and s the hunger and struggle of an craving writer with clarity, wit, highest heart." -- Jami Attenberg, New York Times bestselilng author footnote The Middlesteins and Saint Mazie

"Both funny and heartbreaking, Diamond's dissertation is not just an credit of how one director's pictures impacted-and perhaps saved-his life. Say you will is also a memorable selflessness on what it means say you will let go of the lend a hand and grow up. A quirkily intelligent memoir of finding being in movies." -- Kirkus Reviews