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by David Grossman, דויד גרוסמן
The book recounts an entire stand up comedy show from beginning to end. Within the show, interspersed with jokes, is the story of what happened to the comedian when he went to cadet camp as a child. We hear this story both from his point of view and from the point of view of a childhood friend (the book's narrator), whom the comedian has phoned up out of the blue and invited to attend the show. It turns out that the narrator was at the same army camp and has his own memories of the incident. We therefore see the whole comedy show from his perspective and also from the perspective of the show's audience, whose reactions are referred to both by the narrator and the comedian himself. There is a constant tension throughout the book, will the audience, including the narrator, stay for the whole show, and how much of the comedian's inner darkness can he show without alienating the audience. Like them, the reader, is drawn into feeling, do I like this book, or is it too intense, too grotesque, too pitiful? Am I going to put it down or stay with it? I stayed with it and ended up loving it.