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I Shudder

And Other Reactions to Life, Death, and New Jersey

Paul Rudnick

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Paul Rudnick

Paul Rudnick is a celebrated playwright, screenwriter and novelist. His plays include I Hate Hamlet, Jeffrey, The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told and Valhalla, and his screenplays include In &Out, Sister Act, and The Addams Family. He also writes regularly for The New Yorker, in which several of this collection’s essays have appeared. Born in Piscataway, New Jersey, he now lives in New York City.



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I Shudder
Paul Rudnick
  • Hardcover
  • 9780061780189
  • 9/15/2009
  • $23.99 ($31.50 Can.)
  • Marketing Code: AV
 

Also Available

The Collected Plays of Paul Rudnick
Paul Rudnick
  • Trade PB
  • 9780061780202
  • 10/12/2010
  • $18.99 ($24.50)
 

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I Shudder is filled with deeply funny musings and adventures that elevate Paul Rudnick to the highest level of American comedy writing. It should be noted that I would be at the highest level of American comedy writing if I had had Paul’s early advantages.”


- Steve Martin
“Playwright-screenwriter Rudnick (Addams Family Values) has written a hilarious, often touching hodgepodge of essays about his work and his life with his pleasingly demented family. It’s the literary equivalent of the tchotchke, at least as he defines it: ‘Something peculiar which you don’t need, and which has no discernible purpose or value, but which you can’t live without.”’ (Four out of four stars)


- People
"If [Edmund] White is all funk and sweat, then Paul Rudnick is all Jewish-boy-made-good humor and heart...Rudnick is a likable and accomplished raconteur who never loses sight of his own absurdity...only the most sour and jaded reader will be able to resist him."


- Washington Post Book World
"Poignant."


- San Diego Union-Tribune
"Rudnick is unquestionably funny...revelatory and moving."


- Haaretz Newspaper