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Loser Goes First : My Thirty-something Years of Dumb Luck and Minor Humiliation by Dan Kennedy; OverDrive, Inc is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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It all begins on Christmas morning, 1978. Dan Kennedy is ten years old and wants a black Gibson Les Paul guitar, the kind Peter Frampton plays. It will be his passport to the coolest (only) band in the neighborhood--Jokerz. He doesn't get it. Instead, his parents present him with what they think he wants most, a real-estate loan calculator (called the Loan Arranger) and a maroon velour pullover shirt with a tan stripe across the chest. It is the first of what will become a lifetime of various-sized failures, misunderstandings, comical humiliations, and just plain silly choices that have dogged this "hipster Proust of youthful loserdom," as author Jerry Stahl has so eloquently called Mr. Kennedy. Dan's hilarious and painfully awkward youth soon develops into a ... uh ... hilarious and painfully awkward adulthood. His first two choices for university are Yale (Lit or Drama) and Harvard (Business), so he reviews his high school transcripts and decides on Butte Community College in Oroville, California, where he studies for about four and a half weeks. We could go on here and describe in detail all of Dan's good-natured stabs at ambition, but he, himself, sums it all up quite nicely: "

Who reads Loser Goes First : My Thirty-something Years of Dumb Luck and Minor Humiliation?

Author

Dan Kennedy; OverDrive, Inc

Publisher

Crown Publishers

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9781400082926

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Memoir, Fiction

Rating

3.32 / 5 (350 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14