Stand Up & Heartbreak is a narrative non-fiction glimpse into the life of a budding stand-up comic who unknowingly marries a sex addict, and they both stop performing. Set in NYC in 1981, from comedy cellars to dive bars to Park Avenue high-rises, a female comic from Brooklyn meets the man of her dreams, not knowing his addictions and double life. With big hair and a satin jumpsuit, she confronts sexism, manages hecklers, says "next" to bad sex and endures a marriage gone awry, finally emerging with the punch line. Stand Up & Heartbreak spotlights being a comic at the wrong time in a world where timing is everything.
- | Author: Arlene Schindler
- | Publisher: Humoroutcasts Press
- | Publication Date: May 20, 2019
- | Number of Pages: 372 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 0960008535
- | ISBN-13: 9780960008537