All Over the Map
  • Published: 15 December 2022
  • ISBN: 9780385671156
  • Imprint: Doubleday CAN Titles
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $35.00

All Over the Map

Rambles and Ruminations from the Canadian Road

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15 Dec 2022
Hardback
19 Oct 2021
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER

Canada's most verbally virtuosic comic makes his literary debut—and he's just as richly, uproariously funny on the page as on stage.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

Canada's most verbally virtuosic comic makes his literary debut—and he's just as richly, gloriously funny on the page as on stage.

His legion of fans—the ones who ensure his every show the length and breadth of Canada is sold out—recognize Ron James as one of the great stand-ups of his generation. His seemingly improvisational flights of fancy—no two shows are ever the same—are crammed with inventive phrase-making, feature a voluminous vocabulary, and put every word into the service of uproarious comedy.

He sounds like a man born to write a great book—and now at last he has. But this is a book he has been writing for most of his life, in his head, in his car, while driving from gig to gig.

In All Over the Map, Ron has brilliantly captured the voice that has enthralled millions on stage and screen. He also lets up a little on the usually relentless laughs (though there are still plenty of those) to reveal a new dimension to his beloved showbiz character. His hilarious reminiscences of growing up in Nova Scotia and his early struggles as an aspiring comic, his reveries on such topics as family, country, celebrity and lessons learned from myriad chance encounters will deepen our appreciation for this great comic and win him many new fans in his new role as author.
  • Published: 15 December 2022
  • ISBN: 9780385671156
  • Imprint: Doubleday CAN Titles
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $35.00
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Praise for All Over the Map

AN INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER "In these times of anxiety and social combat over COVID-19, laughter is closer to medicine than merriment, and All Over The Map provides plenty. . . . While the rants and wisecracks are still there in spades, quite a few of his words on paper are kindly and persuasive, and you feel at home with him. He's a good writer." —Winnipeg Free Press "One thing Ron James has always been is a writer. And the journals he kept along the way helped him write his new book, All Over the Map. The book is full of Ron's encounters with memorable strangers from the road as well as his childhood growing up in Nova Scotia. And I mentioned his use of language? It is jaw-dropping." —Tom Power, Q, CBC "Ron James offers a hilarious tour through some of the unfunny realities of life as a Canadian comedian—enough to make a grown-up laugh and cry, cringe and think." —Linden MacIntyre "This book is more than just another funny memoir. It's an eloquent and beautiful tribute to this great country ours and the wonderful people who populate, written by one of Canada's greatest comedians. Hilarious, poignant and perceptive, the stories will stay with you long after your laughter has subsided. Read slowly. You'lll miss it when it's gone." —Mark Critch Praise for Ron James: "Cleverly, hysterically funny." —Toronto Star "A master comedian with a distinctly Canadian viewpoint." —St. John's Telegram "A high wire act of hilarity." —Edmonton Journal "A virtuoso comedic performance." —The Globe and Mail "Scarcely time to breath between helpless fits of laughter." —Chronicle Herald