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Can she talk! Here is the bitter and
bizarre struggle, the desperate hilarity,
the deep pain and anger, that created
one of the world s foremost comedians.
It is the story of Joan Rivers s obsessed
childhood and apprentice years, her
battle against doubting parents, sleazy
agents, hostile audiences in tawdry
clubs--as she says, "Dying on more
stages than Hamlet"--until literally in
one night, she burst through into the
bright light of her show-business dream.
Certain since earliest memory that
she belonged onstage, Joan Rivers sur-
vived taunts in a fat-girl youth, silence in
Catskills" showrooms, and jeers in
grimy strip joints. On her own in Man-
hattan, refusing to give up, she made
ends meet as an office temporary, steal-
ing stamps at work, hustling dimes from
pay phones, and letting friendly cooks
slip her scrambled eggs. From the freez-
ing midtown attic where she acted with
Barbra Streisand,to Chicago s comedy
crucible, Second City, where she mas-
tered the sophisticated comedy of her
predecessors Mike Nichols, Elaine May,
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