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haleymock 's review for:
It's Always Something
by Gilda Radner
I am embarrassed to admit I had never heard of Gilda Radner before my grandma sent me this book. She was part of the original SNL cast and led an amazing life in 42 years. Gilda was brave, honest and funny. To put it simply- this book is devastating. Gilda started it when she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer and the tone is heartbreaking when you know that she didn’t survive. Gene Wilder clearly loved her so much and it’s so sad they didn’t have even a decade together. “Delicious ambiguity” is a contender for my next tattoo.
“I wanted to wrap this book up in a neat little package about a girl who is a comedienne from Detroit, becomes famous in New York, with all the world coming her way, gets this horrible disease of cancer, is brave and fights it, learning all the skills she needs to get through it, and then, miraculously, things are tied up neatly and she gets well… I wanted a prefect ending, so I sat down to write the book with the ending in place before there even was an ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle and end. Like my life, this book has ambiguity. Like my life, this book is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity…”
“I wanted to wrap this book up in a neat little package about a girl who is a comedienne from Detroit, becomes famous in New York, with all the world coming her way, gets this horrible disease of cancer, is brave and fights it, learning all the skills she needs to get through it, and then, miraculously, things are tied up neatly and she gets well… I wanted a prefect ending, so I sat down to write the book with the ending in place before there even was an ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle and end. Like my life, this book has ambiguity. Like my life, this book is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity…”