The Old Man and the Pool (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | knygos.lt

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A tale of life, death, and a highly chlorinated YMCA pool. Award-winning comedian and storyteller Mike Birbiglia's "coming-of-middle-age story" is a hilarious reminder for all of us recovering from failing bodies and a flailing world that laughter is indeed the best medicine.

"[The Old Man and the Pool is] about swimming and making people laugh about bodies, but it's mostly about our need to laugh about death. And it's beautiful: exquisitely written...with all of Birbiglia's characteristic ear for tone and rhythm..." - Vulture

"A tight, perfectly constructed 85 minutes... a very real insight into mortality, health and the fragility of life - and, most poignantly, the tenuousness of our connections to those we love." - Deadline

"A rumination on severe obstacles which ought not be funny but, in the author's telling, are positively side-splitting." - New York Stage Review

"Delightful... Birbiglia doesn't bend toward sentimentality. When it comes to matters of the heart, poetic and cardiovascular, he simply suggests chains of family history can be broken." - New York Theatre Guide

"Baked to golden perfection." - The New York Times