Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing (2022)
Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing is a 2022 television comedies book written by Matthew Perry.
Matthew Perry writes about the two things that defined him to the public and to himself: playing Chandler Bing on Friends, and a decades-long addiction to alcohol and painkillers that nearly killed him. He moves between a fractured childhood split across Montreal and Los Angeles, a teenage career as a nationally ranked Canadian tennis player, the surreal rise to sitcom fame, and the hospital rooms and rehab stays that all that fame never reached. The tone is candid and often funny, self-lacerating without much self-pity. Perry narrated the audiobook himself, and the voice on the page is unmistakably his.
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What is Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing about?
Matthew Perry writes about the two things that defined him to the public and to himself: playing Chandler Bing on Friends, and a decades-long addiction to alcohol and painkillers that nearly killed him. He moves between a fractured childhood split across Montreal and Los Angeles, a teenage career as a nationally ranked Canadian tennis player, the surreal rise to sitcom fame, and the hospital rooms and rehab stays that all that fame never reached. The tone is candid and often funny, self-lacerating without much self-pity. Perry narrated the audiobook himself, and the voice on the page is unmistakably his.
When was Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing published?
Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing was published in 2022.
Who made Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing?
Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing was written by Matthew Perry.
A few thoughts on Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing
The obvious next stop is Friends itself, the sitcom that frames the whole memoir. Beyond it, Robert Zemeckis's film Flight follows a gifted addict who keeps functioning while everything quietly erodes beneath him, and the sitcom Mom builds real laughs and real stakes out of the daily work of getting and staying sober.